Sounds like a version of "This is the house that Jack built...",
only Jack is Bill.
:)

Harry

On Tue, 27 May 1997, brian j. callahan wrote:

> Tresy writes:
> >>Don asks:
> >>>Did Bill Gates build Microsoft without using the overarching coercive
> >>>power of the state?
> >>
> >>Well, for a start, there's  copyright law.
>
> >Which Apple correctly says Gates flouted.
>
> And which the State decided, with the help of Microsoft's legion of lawyers,
> he did not.
>