Lestat said:
yup! let's all fund the man who stole most of his code to make windows.lets all support backstabbing asswipes.who even steals open code.So yes fund windows! If your on the internet and you pay for stuff 4 words "your a fking idiot" and M$ love's idiots just like you! You make bills wallet FAT! and he wont even say "Thank You" i say thanks bill for the corporate key's cheers mate.The net + (omg ill pay!) = Your a fking retard of the 23rd century.
P.S. thanks for deleting my WGA post Noddy.. who ever you are.
Stealing open code??? thats like saying every author in the world is plagiarizing the dictionary because every word was published in the dictionary first.
Your ignorance on the flow on effect of supporting a developer is astounding. Sure shareholders take a cut in the end but its only a small percentage of the end of qtr/yrs profits. Needless to say those shareholders invest either huge amounts of money or time in order to acquire their shares.
Just fyi the bulk of microsoft's profits goes into their staff which eventually feeds through to income taxes and helps fund social services to improve communities where-ever there is a microsoft office/branch..
Also Bill Gates isn't a total douche like other multi-billionaires as he and his wife founded their own foundation to help the needy.