| The Borg Collective | Bill Gates and the Microsoft Collective
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| Travel from system to system assimilating culture after culture.
| Travel from culture to culture assimilating system after system.
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| "We will add your individuality and your distinctiveness to our own"
| "We will add your money and all of your productivity to our own"
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| There are sub parts of the Borg that are incompatible with the rest of the collective for an undetermined reason. (Hugh and his Borg)
| There are parts of the Microsoft collective that are incompatible with the rest of the collective for an undetermined reason. (Microsoft Works)
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| The Borg have a Queen that is evil and ambitious enough to go back in time to enslave humanity.
| The Microsoft Collective have Gates who is evil and ambitious enough to, in the past, use a Basic interpretor to begin the empire.
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| The Borg hunt down and absorb anything that is different from them, even if it is not a threat.
| Microsoft hunts down and absorbs all Macintosh, UNIX, and OS2 users, even though they only make up ten percent of the market.
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| "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
| "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
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| The Borg Collective | Bill Gates and the Microsoft Collective
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| The Borg are mortal and are repeatedly beaten by normal humans like Picard.
| Microsoft is an immortal cooperation, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop them.
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| Individuals have escaped the Borg (Guinan, Soran, Hugh)
| No one escapes Windows.
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| When the Borg assimilate a culture, they improve themselves.
| Microsoft improved themselves with Windows 95.
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| The Borg are fast and punctual with their new invasions.
| Microsoft is not.
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| The Borg invade using one self contained ship.
| Microsoft invades with packages like Office and Works.
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| If you separate a Borg from the collective, it will return to being an individual.
| If you separate Windows and DOS from your computer, what can you replace it with?
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| The Borg are characters in a T.V. show.
| Microsoft is real.
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