Keep joking but Bill Gates could have last laugh.

From: The Boston Herald | Date: November 16, 1999| Author: Schorow, Stephanie | Copyright information

So let me get this straight.

Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men - on that we all agree. His company, Microsoft, was just characterized as an innovation-stifling monopoly by a federal judge. Such things are not good for a democratic/capitalist society. You're with me so far?

Now, chances are that if your friends send you e-mail humor, you've received at least one Microsoft joke (as in "How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb...

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