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    Zeke Schlaboda

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  1. Comment - Microsoft Faces Second WGA Lawsuit

    (Jul 6, 2006 - 2:28 AM)

    First consider this. 23 billion looks like this: $23,000,000,000.00
    divided by $100 = 230 million copies of windows.

    Now go here to get the visual of it all:
    http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

    G R E E D

  2. Comment - Microsoft Faces Second WGA Lawsuit

    (Jul 6, 2006 - 2:12 AM)

    You miss the point Pixelsmack (or at least the one I made...maybe you didn't read mine below yours)...my response to your post is that when they again double the price, and one of the owners goes from $23 billion to $46 billion, will you please step up and say "good god" to that too?
    Its pure uncontrolled greed.

  3. Comment - Microsoft Faces Second WGA Lawsuit

    (Jul 5, 2006 - 10:00 PM)

    Uncontrolled greed: Hey everyone, this licensing-non-ownership-control has gone too far.

    What are we going to do when the music industry says, "You don't own your CD, you just license it, and we only allow it to run on one stereo. You have to call us and activate your CD for each device you wish to play it on." "Oh, you want to play music from that CD in your car? Sorry, you still need to buy another license for each electronic device you wish to play your 'licensed' CD on."

    All this licensing, automatic updating, browswer war, instant messaging war, product activation is just beyond belief as a reflection of the extent of greed that has overtaken our society. I don't promote theft, I just also object to this legal theft of pricing products in excess of their actual value. The co-founder of Microsoft is worth $23 billion? How much is enough? And we keep letting companies and industries like this go on gouging us bloody like dumb sheep.