January 6, 2005

Bill Gates CES Meltdown

It's interesting to compare this simple legacy media press release framed as an article with a very different perspective [Lessig | Boing Boing] on Gates Las Vegas comments regarding our fair use rights (he essentially sides with the hollywood cartels). Slashdot discussion. Bottom line - don't do Windows.

A bit more research (a few seconds on google) and we have Bill Gates in 1991:

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today"
Thanks to Jeff Keltner for that pointer.

Posted by James Zellmer at January 6, 2005 9:14 PM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:
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