Reply #100: Jesus Christ... [View All]

[grantdwilliams]

Here... I'll say it again...


There's an individual Japanese person. He may or may not like Windows over Mac or UNIX or whatever.

There's another individual Japanese person. He in fact doesn't like Windows for whatever reason

The second person goes to the government and says, "you should create an operating that competes with Windows". The government says "OK"

The government then raises the taxes of one or both of the individual Japanese people to create this snazzy new Operating system.

Who's lost what? Well, it's certainly not the government, they now have one more happy voter (the 2nd person). And it's certainly not the 2nd person (his software desires have been met).

It's the 1st Japanese Inidivual person. He had money that he spent his time to earn taken right out of his pocket to help pay for something that he didn't want to pay for.

Do I have to draw pictures?