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PoliSat Rhymes about...
Bill Gates.
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D-Day Plus One (a limerick) (du20000607-01)
    The Seventh Day of June is a Day 
    to paraphrase Gage and just say:
    I hate Reno-vation, 
    I need a vacation, 
    tell Canada I'm on the way. 
© 2000  (Editor's Note:  see also my original rhyme about Reno's anti-trust action against Microsoft, of which I'm no great fan, by the way, but I trust Microsoft a heck of a lot more than I trust federal bureaucrats.)

The Ballad of Bill Gates  
(in the wake of findings in anti-trust case on 11-05-99).
    Remember how short was our reach 
    back when computers were only for geeks?
    Although they seemed to be smart 
    to use them was hard 
    except for computer-like freaks.
    A drop-out from college 
    who had lots of knowlege --
    determined and quite resolute--
    created a way 
    to make it like play 
    for everyone else to compute.
    He made a computer-like house 
    to hold an electronic mouse.
    To help all us bimbos 
    he created Windows 
    for us to see into that house.
    This made it quite easy 
    for those who'd felt queasy 
    when trying to use a computer.
    It made us quite eager 
    to work like a beaver 
    'cause all of our fears had been neutered.
    During that time IBM 
    found itself forced to defend.
    A government charge 
    that it was so large 
    competitors couldn't get in.
    During that case 
    the competitive race 
    soon proved that the gov'ment was wrong.
    Competitors flourished, 
    computers were nourished 
    and soon could be bought for a song.
    Meanwhile the dropout named Gates
    continued to lower his rates.
    His business exploded 
    while others imploded 
    and tried to blame him for their fate.
    And like IBM 
    he was forced defend 
    the charge that he'd gotten too big.
    The competitive race 
    increases it pace 
    while he's in the anti-trust brig.
    So what is the moral 
    of this software quarrel?
    It's great to be good 
    but if you're too good 
    you'll face the wrong end of a barrel.
    The free-market works 
    'til government jerks 
    decide they can make it work better.
    Tha'ts when we see 
    the farce it can be 
    when government's like the Mad Hatter 
© 2000