Hold up!!!
As much as I hate Gates, as anyone here will testify, he's proposed several solutions to the problem.
My favourite one, the so-called "Penny Black" idea, would not cost anyone any money unless they were mass-mailing. The idea is to tax computer CPU and/or memory power per email, not $$$.
Granted, he'll probably want to increase MS's (soon to be very much reduced) revenues any way he can, but I've seen no evidence of:
clsmith wrote:The second part of this 'revelation' that they've, conveniently, left out is that Bill wants to charge a penny per e-mail.
Can you back this up?