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- From: rwb00@avon.as (Robert W Beveridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <faG=022e2f2U01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:04:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.221627.15894@unlv.edu>
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- Reply-To: rwb00@avon.as
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- In article 15894@unlv.edu, slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>In article <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>I dont care what MS _might_ do. I do care about what they have
- >>done. By now, with the exception of IBM (with an early help from MS),
- >>nobody was able to produce as cheaply an operating system that people really
- >>_wanted_, other then MS. Just take a look at the history and you will
- >>see how prices are becoming lower, and new applications that people
- >>_want_, are being written as a result of MS-Windows.
- >
- >Here's a quarter, go BUY a clue. And remember that all MS is they owe
- >to DR. Why? Because if DR hadn't f*cked with IBM, THEY would have been
- >the company IBM hired to write the opperating system for the IBM PC.
- >Bill Gates would still be in his garage fiddling with QDOS...heh.
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- Interesting. MS developed Windows, Word, all those mac applications,
- a mouse, trackball, soundboard - all thanks to DR ! Microsoft (and Bill
- Gates) just stood there, and these products sprang forth - because of DR !
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- Maybe you should keep the quarter and buy yourself a clue ?
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