Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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Date: 23 Dec 92 16:47:08 GMT
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In article 1h8rofINNi01@tamsun.tamu.edu, bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
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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 !
>
>Microsoft developed the mouse? Tell that to Doug Englebart who did
>develop the mouse (1965). He did the track ball too.
Well, nobody claimed that Microsoft invented mice or spreadsheets - but they "developed" and marketed very successful versions of both. The original poster
was claiming that Microsoft essentially did nothing, yet became successful.
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>Windows isn't a copy of X?
>
>It seems to me that MS doen't have many original ideas, but they sure
>take credit for them.
If by this you mean, for example, that they didn't invent spreadsheets,
you are right. But they did write Excel, and I think they deserve lots of
credit for that.
>>
>>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.
Someone who thinks Windows is a copy of X is in no position to criticize
others for not doing research before they speak...
