🚀 go-pugleaf

David B. Greene wrote:
> 
> 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.

Vaporware had been a product before Gates came along, He just
mass-marketed it.