When is Bill Gates going to have enough money ?

suprastar · Criminal Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 60 City: Canandaigua

I herd this morning that he want to put a charge on e-mails now. He says to help stop junk mail. There are options on your mail service to send junk mail right into your delete box. What's the need for a charge but to put money into his pocket.

DaveBrowning · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 6:59 am Post subject:

That more than likely won't happen.

Jim M · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 2933

I dont see that happening, thats crazy to hear though if he is supporting that. Technology will always be one step ahead of pay-per services, even legal regulations cant control it- too many dedicated ubers finding loopholes.

Porterwake · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 7:17 am Post subject:

I hear Bill can't give away his money as fast as he makes it. Shocked

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Shouldn't he be able to charge whatever he wants for whatever he can get away with, regardless of the impace on society? That's capitalism, right?

When will YOU have enough money?

J_DOGG · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 7:29 am Post subject:

I would think he has to check with Al Gore the inventor of the Internet first....LOL.....

Leggester · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Only if you use an MS product, there are plenty others out there.

eeven73 · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

RampageWake · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

Urban Myth.

There was another "chain-mail" warning everyone that the USPS was going to start charging .01 or so for each email.... I have heard people who have put forth this theory, to charge .001 for each email and only people who send millions of emails would be affected (spammers), but I do not think big Bill supports that. I think his new Longhorn system includes an authentication method so when you attempt to send an email to someone, their mail account responds with an image of letters and numbers that you must enter correctly, send back, and this creates a "trust" relationship so emails can go through. If a mass mail program attempts to send the mail, the program cannot read the picture of numbers and letters and the recipiant's account nixes the mail. Some techies on here probably know more about the direction spam filtering is going better than me....

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Yea, Urban Myth, I'll bet.

bizzuck · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 593

cameraboy

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Leggester · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 9:26 am Post subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/index.html

NorCalStud686 · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 9:31 am Post subject:

Porterwake, Yeah i saw this thing on a show, that he would have to spend $30,000 a minute for the next 80 years or something like that to spend all his money.

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Well how about that, it is real..........

Gates does a lot for charity, as well.

He could buy a new Malibu VLX for every run for 80 years.

NorCalStud686 · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 9:43 am Post subject:

cameraboy,

suprastar · Criminal Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 60 City: Canandaigua

he probably dosen't pay as much as you think he dose. He has people to find him loopholes ans such so he dosen't have to pay as much.

jeffrey_25 · Addict Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 811

There's no such things as enough money.

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

cameraboy, of course he has the right to make as much money as he can/wants. But he's already the wealthiest man in the world. What more can he gain except numbers. Money has got to be a very arbitrary thing for that man. Like Kleanex's. He doesn't care how many he uses when he goes shopping for his kids or whatever. His business, though, is different.

This kinda parallels the whole monopoly thing with the software. What if he wanted to charge $1000 for MS?

That would fit in to the "he has a right to make as much money as he wants" idea. But would that be fair to the average american/user with a home pc that gets used once a day or less?

x vegan x · Addict Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 857 City: Minneapolis

Of course it's fair. There are plenty of alternatives to MS.

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

eeven73 · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 11:27 am Post subject:

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

BillJ

RampageWake · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

An example of what I was talking about is here:

http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/entry.jhtml;jsessionid=HPIGFXRKLLDGICWLEAKSFEQ?_requestid=768110

these pictures are not read by computers, therefore it makes it impractical for a spammer to read and type in each code everytime he wanted to send an email. This might be along the lines of how Bill suggests we "pay".

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

Bill Y Bob · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

drifter36 · Addict Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 679 City: Fargo

ok the title of the thread is when is bill gates going to have enough money?- if you had his cash wuoldnt you want to keep making more?

i say that even tho i dont this email thing will ever happen

Porterwake · Posted: Mar 05, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

ben746 · Addict Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 560

who is bill gates? Rolling Eyes

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

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No, seriously. OK, Business ethics....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sorry, I can't stop!

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

Porterwake, thank you. Well it may be an economics term as well, but marketing uses it to set a price.

drifter36, what would be the point?

I've never seen soo many h-a's w/out a double h or a here and there...mustof been a real good laugh.

BurkeViper · Posted: Mar 07, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

I got an e-mail saying that that's what he was going to do a long time ago. Still hasn't happened 2 years later.

Rolling Eyes