*** Quoting Albert Alcoceba from a message to Ryan Bagueros ***
AA> Setting up any business venture costs money.  If you are so confident 
AA> of your programming skills etc., and are confident that you can code 
AA> an operating system to rival Windows, then you go an you get yourself 
AA> a business loan from the bank for, say $400,000 and you buy all you 
AA> need and you put your back side up and start working.
Perhaps I can clarify things for you a bit. You would agree that a capitalist 
economy can be viewed as a competition, correct? Obviously, the nature of a 
free market is competitive. Just like a game. In this game, though, you play 
with what you've got. I will probably _never_ make $400,000 in my lifetime. 
Neither will a vast majority of Americans, not to mention all the people in 
the
world. Bill Gates makes $400,000 in the blink of an eye. Now, using your best 
judgement, who do you think fares a better chance? Perhaps these are uneven 
odds, eh? So let's say I do get that bank loan (which I probably wouldn't, 
considering my age and credit rating). If I succeed, I can possibly make 
enough
money not to worry. If I don't succeed, I'm ruined for life. Forever. Do you 
think this is the same evaluation Bill Gates would use? If he loses $400,000, 
its just been a bad week.
And then as an added bonus, he has people like you who are his ideological 
subservients, defending his cause. Not to mention his business practices 
which 
are designed to eliminate any competition from the market. And with all that 
money, it isn't that hard to do. Who will unseat Bill Gates? Just another 
Bill 
Gates.
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