Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Okay- I may be missing something, but why all the razzing on ole Bill? Gates did what all of us wish they could do- come up with an idea, run with it all the way to the bank, and become 'a contender'! I have seen interviews where he is both charming and unassuming, and those where he comes across as a nerdy, childish jerk, but then again, we've all acted badly at one time or another. Monopoly? Well, when I saw a recent commercial where Oracle claimed to have 96% of the internet commerce database market, I cringed- I said to the screen ( I tend to talk to m'self at this age!) - "You guys better watch it! Look what happened to Bill, and he only had 65% of the Operating System Market!" If he buys up these images, then is it all his fault? who sold them out to begin with? Perhaps buying them all will not matter in a few years when you can digitally generate any image you want....technology moves rapidly, and I know that even if Jim Brick claims film will not be obsolete, it is being replaced in many fields with CCD images- from Astronomy to Zoo picutres! I imagine that when Henry Ford cornered the rubber market to assure a constant supply of tyre for his model "T"s that there was some concern, but technology moved on, so too with the guy that thought he had cornered the market in buggy whips! I have better things to worry about! We all do! Everyone who shuddered to think of what might have happened when the 'millennium' turned- which actually won't happen until the end of this year, that they forgot that Homo Sapiens Sapiens had survived most of the last thirty thousand years eating what he got with a stick and string, and a handful of rocks. Most of what we take for granted now is the result of man's efforts in the last few centuries, and I don't think in the long run that a man like Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton will make all that much difference in what we can and will become! Leica APS cameras? Hell, they could make blenders and coffee pots for all I care,. If they have to do it to survive, then fine. Just think, "Six hundred years from now, what the Hell difference will it make?" Dan (Living for today, and loving every minute of it!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:12 PM Subject: [Leica] Difference between Bill Gates and God? > God does not think that He is Bill Gates. > > JC > (my real initials) > >