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ha...@programmer.net (Han) wrote:
>Unk...@Hell.Com (UnderTaker) wrote:
>>Phil McCracken <p...@teldar.com.au> wrote:

>What I really finds interesting and fascinating about Bill Gates and
>Microsoft is this...
>Before Microsoft,  software wasn't a product!
>Bill Gates made it a product and change the mindset of the entire
>world that software has to be paid for; it is not free.
>And then he starts to sell it,  and make it one of the best
>money-making commodity in the world.
>Now,  isn't that more fascinating than anyone who discovered oil and
>sell oil to make money?
>Oil is more like god/nature given 'gift' whereas software is CREATED
>by human intelligence.  It's not a natural resources,  it's abstract
>and do not even exists in physical form,  not even in the computer
>circuits!  It's all a matter of pure intangible information of 1s and
>0s which makes the entire world ticks!
>THAT'S what I call the most AMAZING thing in the world.

Software has been a product before Gates came along.  He just invented
vaporware.

>>>Thought the sultan of Brunai was the overall richest.
>>
>>I think the lesson is software (MS) sells... more than oil

>Han
>The SmartWare Shop

Dave Greene