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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:59:59 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- References: <1992Dec22.221627.15894@unlv.edu> <faG=022e2f2U01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- In article <faG=022e2f2U01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> rwb00@avon.as writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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 !
-
- Microsoft developed the mouse? Tell that to Doug Englebart who did
- develop the mouse (1965). He did the track ball too.
-
- Windows isn't a copy of X?
-
- Sure, MS developed Word, but a lot of folks do NOT agree that Word is
- the best around.
-
- It seems to me that MS doen't have many original ideas, but they sure
- take credit for them.
-
- >
- >Maybe you should keep the quarter and buy yourself a clue ?
-
- Maybe you need more than one clue. They really don't cost a quarter,
- try research before you speak.
- --
- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
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- | Scrupulous Lawyer
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