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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: mndfreeze]
#27251719 - 03/13/21 06:44 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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We didn't wear masks for AIDS.
Checkmate, liberals.
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: mndfreeze]
#27251720 - 03/13/21 06:44 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Patents
really dirty stuff in here
way too much to get into
basically he wouldn exist if not for infringement and monopoly
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251723 - 03/13/21 06:45 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against:
Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court.[46] Apple Inc. (known as Apple Computer, Inc. at the time), which accused Microsoft in the late 1980s of copying the "look and feel" of the graphical user interface of Apple's operating systems. The courts ruled in favor of Microsoft in 1994. Another suit by Apple accused Microsoft, along with Intel and the San Francisco Canyon Company, in 1995 of knowingly stealing several thousand lines of QuickTime source code in an effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.[47][48][49][50] After a threat to withdraw support for Office for Mac,[51][52] this lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, and made a quiet payoff estimated to be in the US$500 million-$2 billion range.[53][54][55][56] AOL, on behalf of its Netscape division.[57] Netscape (as an independent company) also was involved in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit. AtomicPark.com, which in 2009 was ordered to pay $1.2 million to Microsoft for selling unauthorized versions of Microsoft software.[58][59] Be Inc., which accused Microsoft of exclusionary and anticompetitive behavior intended to drive Be out of the market. Be even offered to license its Be Operating System (BeOS) for free to any PC vendors who would ship it pre-installed, but the vendors declined due to what Be believes were fears of pricing retaliation from Microsoft: by raising the price of Microsoft Windows for one particular PC vendor, Microsoft could price that vendor's PCs out of the market.[60] Bristol Technology, which accused Microsoft illegally withheld Windows source code and used its dominant position with Windows to move into other markets.[61][62][63] A ruling later ordered Microsoft to pay $1 million to Bristol Technologies[64] (see also Windows Interface Source Environment). Caldera, Inc. in 1996, accused Microsoft of several anti-competitive practices,[3] including vaporware announcements, creating FUD, exclusionary licensing and artificial tying.[65][66] One of the claims was down to bundling and tying MS-DOS 7 and Windows 4 into a single product (Windows 95) for the sole purpose of eliminating competition, another to having modified Windows 3.1 so that it would not run on DR DOS 6.0 although there was no technical reason for it not to work.[65][67] Several industry experts revealed that Microsoft put encrypted code, which became known as AARD code, in five otherwise unrelated Microsoft programs in order to prevent the functioning of DR DOS in pre-releases (beta versions) of Windows 3.1,[68][69][70] and that it was technically possible to run Windows 4 on DR-DOS 7 after bypassing some new and non-essential interface code through WinGlue.[71][72][73][74][75][76] In 2000, Microsoft settled out-of-court for an undisclosed sum, which in 2009 was revealed to be 280 million dollars,[77][78][79][80] and the Caldera evidence was destroyed in 2003.[81][82] Opera Software, which accused Microsoft of intentionally making its MSN service incompatible with the Opera browser on several occasions.[83][84] Sendo, which accused Microsoft of terminating their partnership so it could steal Sendo's technology to use in Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition.[85] Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.[86] Stac Electronics, which accused Microsoft of stealing its data compression code and using it in MS-DOS 6.0.[87] Microsoft eventually lost the subsequent Stac v. Microsoft lawsuit and was ordered by a federal court to pay roughly $120 million in compensation.[88] Sun Microsystems, which held Microsoft in violation of contract for including a modified version of Java in Microsoft Windows that provided Windows-specific extensions to Sun's Java language; Microsoft lost this decision in court and were forced to stop shipping their Windows-specific Java virtual machine. Microsoft eventually ceased to include any Java Virtual Machine in Windows, and Windows users who require a Java Virtual Machine need to download the software or otherwise acquire a copy from a source other than Microsoft. Zhongyi Electronic, which, having licensed two self-designed fonts to Microsoft for use only in Windows 95, filed suit in China in April, 2007, accusing Microsoft of using those fonts in subsequent Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003 and four other Chinese-language Windows operating systems. Beijing's No. 1 intermediate people's court ruled on November 16, 2009 that Microsoft violated the scope of licensing agreements between the two companies. The result of the verdict is that Microsoft has to stop selling Chinese-language versions of the aforementioned operating systems.[89][90] Microsoft said it will appeal.[91] One of the fonts in question may be SimSun.[92] Many other smaller companies have filed patent abuse and predatory practice suits against Microsoft.
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251726 - 03/13/21 06:46 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251739 - 03/13/21 07:00 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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they just were able to manipulate da courts in da 90s into acquiring an empire
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251744 - 03/13/21 07:03 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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cannabinated said: bill gates is a patent troll
its always been his only income
Gates isn’t making money off vaccines, he’s spending money on them.
I really don’t get why people get so mad at a guy who is spending his own money to fund vaccine efforts all over the world
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251747 - 03/13/21 07:09 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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cannabinated said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
illustrative
Gates was no longer running Microsoft in 2003
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251756 - 03/13/21 07:17 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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koods said:
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cannabinated said: bill gates is a patent troll
its always been his only income
Gates isn’t making money off vaccines, he’s spending money on them.
I really don’t get why people get so mad at a guy who is spending his own money to fund vaccine efforts all over the world
Because he's gonna make us all eat bugs and register our farm animals or ban farming or some thing
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#27251762 - 03/13/21 07:22 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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#hitlerwasright
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251763 - 03/13/21 07:23 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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when he never even took a biology class
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#27251765 - 03/13/21 07:25 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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there is the idea that Microsoft was "allowed" to happen. they have there services and products everywhere. They even provide support for win98 solely for the military.
It is interesting to think how companies can grow to be larger then most countries on earth. based only on the merits of there products. just doesn't seem possible in globalization.
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251771 - 03/13/21 07:27 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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cannabinated said: when he never even took a biology class
why is that required to donate lots of money?
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251773 - 03/13/21 07:29 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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when ur killin ppl in india and own the most land yeah there should be requirements
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251838 - 03/13/21 08:54 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Asante said: The University of Oxford developed a Covid vaccine, which they wanted to offer to the medical community for free, as a gift to humanity.
Then they got a voisit by Bill Gates and they ended up selling it for-profit to AstraZeneca 
LOL
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cannabinated said: bill gates is a patent troll
its always been his only income
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mndfreeze said: Yeah, he definitely hasn't made any money at all with microsoft....
but again, he did that through being a patent troll, and trying to get people to stop sharing DOS, I dont agree that they should have stole the tape, but once they had the tape, sharing it was a good thing, lots of hobbyist who wouldnt have been able to afford it got to tinker and to learn coding
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cannabinated said: bill gates is a patent troll
its always been his only income
Gates isn’t making money off vaccines, he’s spending money on them.
I really don’t get why people get so mad at a guy who is spending his own money to fund vaccine efforts all over the world
Gates has spent a lot of money on charity in the last while, but overall he still is a shady guy, im sure he has some sort of agenda, plus, see Asante's comment at the top of my post if you missed it
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: gopher]
#27251851 - 03/13/21 09:09 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Part of the Oxford AZ licensing agreement is that the company will sell doses at cost until the pandemic is over.
I really don’t see the problem with this arrangement. You have a huge and capable company with worldwide reach producing a vaccine on a massive scale and selling it at cost.
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251857 - 03/13/21 09:12 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Edited by cannabinated (03/13/21 09:15 PM)
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251863 - 03/13/21 09:16 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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If people don’t like how gates is donating $50 billion, they can donate $50 billion themselves.
Fucking whiny bitches
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251867 - 03/13/21 09:22 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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4.6 million vaccine doses given out in the US today. At this rate everyone who wants a vaccine could have a shot by the end of may
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: koods]
#27251901 - 03/13/21 10:10 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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the donation to Mastercard may have delivered financial benefits to the Gates Foundation; at the time of the donation, in November 2014, the foundation’s endowment had substantial financial investments in Mastercard through its holdings in Warren Buffett’s investment company, Berkshire Hathaway. (Buffett himself has pledged $30 billion to the Gates Foundation. )
The Nation found close to $250 million in charitable grants from the Gates Foundation to companies in which the foundation holds corporate stocks and bonds: Merck, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone, Sanofi, Ericsson, LG, Medtronic, Teva, and numerous start-ups—with the grants directed at projects like developing new drugs and health monitoring systems and creating mobile banking services.
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Re: COVID-19 aka. SARS-CoV-2 - Main Thread on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic PART 2 (Second Wave 2020-2021 season) [Re: cannabinated]
#27251902 - 03/13/21 10:13 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yet the foundation is doing more than simply partnering with companies: It is subsidizing their research costs, opening up markets for their products, and bankrolling their bottom lines in ways that, by and large, have never been publicly examined—even as you and I, dear reader, are subsidizing this work.
By Bill and Melinda Gates’s estimations, they have seen an 11 percent tax savings on their $36 billion in charitable donations through 2018, resulting in around $4 billion in avoided taxes. The foundation would not provide any documentation related to this number, and independent estimates from tax scholars like Ray Madoff, a law professor at Boston College, indicate that multibillionaires see tax savings of at least 40 percent—which, for Bill Gates, would amount to $14 billion—when you factor in the tax benefits that charity offers to the superrich: avoidance of capital gains taxes (normally 15 percent) and estate taxes (40 percent on everything over $11.58 million, which in Gates’s case is a lot).
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