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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.023319.28964@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:33:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.221627.15894@unlv.edu> <faG=022e2f2U01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1h8rofINNi01@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1h8rofINNi01@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >Microsoft developed the mouse? Tell that to Doug Englebart who did
- >develop the mouse (1965). He did the track ball too.
-
- In fact, there were several PC mice that predated the Microsoft mouse.
-
- >Sure, MS developed Word, but a lot of folks do NOT agree that Word is
- >the best around.
-
- Actually, they didn't. Word was originally developed by an
- independent developer. Microsoft bought the rights to it, at least on
- the PC.
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