I'm going to agree with you that Microsoft doesn't need to be critisized on this. I think that Microsoft is just like any company, they want to get bigger and bigger, richer and richer. I'm not necessarily a Pro-Microsoft Person, but as I posted in another article, previously, Microsoft built itself up to where it is today; some tactics that they used weren't of best ethics, but they built themselves up.
I think that Microsoft has been somewhat been trying to improve their quality, I mean, finaly in Win95 they successfully (well partially) mimiced Mac OS. Microsoft is working on it, and someday, probably by the year 3000 they'll get it right.
I kinda have to admit that Gates does deserve some credit for the huge empire that he has built. Call me an Idiot, but he somewhat deserves his billions of dollars, because he did work very hard to get where he is. I think that the suit over monopolism is irrelevant to the fact that the first money that he made started out in the garage of some house. Well, I know i'm stupid, but he deserves some of his money, that's all i have to say.
From what I have been told by people, many groups/organizations are allowed to monitor the Internet. I have been told that MSN monitors the things that you do while connected, and if you do bad things (which I wouldn't ever do:) such as downloading illegal software, sending illegal stuff, they can catch you. I don't think that the Internet should be monitored by the government, because I think that it's the person's responsibility to take the concequences for one's actions, and if anyone really wanted to plan a huge bombing or something, they wouldn't leave their tracks! I noticed before someone posted that all the money that they're spending on this could be used to provide houses for all the homeless people in America. I don't think that that's too true, but I'm sure that if they really needed to waste their money they should waste it on a good cause that would help everyone. I do not think that the FBI should monitor the Internet, because we are entitled to our first amendment. I'm no lawyer or anything, but I want my rights respected! Matthew McCoy
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I'm going to agree with you that Microsoft doesn't need to be critisized on this. I think that Microsoft is just like any company, they want to get bigger and bigger, richer and richer. I'm not necessarily a Pro-Microsoft Person, but as I posted in another article, previously, Microsoft built itself up to where it is today; some tactics that they used weren't of best ethics, but they built themselves up.
I think that Microsoft has been somewhat been trying to improve their quality, I mean, finaly in Win95 they successfully (well partially) mimiced Mac OS. Microsoft is working on it, and someday, probably by the year 3000 they'll get it right.
I kinda have to admit that Gates does deserve some credit for the huge empire that he has built. Call me an Idiot, but he somewhat deserves his billions of dollars, because he did work very hard to get where he is. I think that the suit over monopolism is irrelevant to the fact that the first money that he made started out in the garage of some house. Well, I know i'm stupid, but he deserves some of his money, that's all i have to say.
From what I have been told by people, many groups/organizations are allowed to monitor the Internet. I have been told that MSN monitors the things that you do while connected, and if you do bad things (which I wouldn't ever do :) such as downloading illegal software, sending illegal stuff, they can catch you. I don't think that the Internet should be monitored by the government, because I think that it's the person's responsibility to take the concequences for one's actions, and if anyone really wanted to plan a huge bombing or something, they wouldn't leave their tracks!
I noticed before someone posted that all the money that they're spending on this could be used to provide houses for all the homeless people in America. I don't think that that's too true, but I'm sure that if they really needed to waste their money they should waste it on a good cause that would help everyone. I do not think that the FBI should monitor the Internet, because we are entitled to our first amendment. I'm no lawyer or anything, but I want my rights respected!
Matthew McCoy