5 Apr
2017
5 Apr
'17
10:54 a.m.
Equivalently, can you imagine what rewards the world would have gained were all that to have been invested in opensource models? Instead, every dollar, rupee, sheckel, dinar, ruble, etc that ever went to Microsoft is all locked up in a shitty OS no better than today's FreeBSD or Linux done largely for free by the freely given sweat of all those involved. Fucking shame that is mate. So let us just see if the "Gates Foundation" and all the other benefactors of the Microsoft stock market profit model delivers as much world gain as was lost. Hint: Hoarding by the rich cannot and never delivers equity given by the poor by definition and physics of witholding.