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From: Michael Watkin
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00

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Eric Smith (eric@telebit.com) wrote:
> In article <3s1dck$rpm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
> (Peter da Silva) writes regarding Bill Gates:
> > His fucked up decisions have cost the computer industry billions,

> Which decisions were those?  It seems to me that he must be making pretty
> good decisions, or Microsoft wouldn't be what it is.

Was it not IBM who wanted DOS for their PCs??
I think their decisions have cost the computer industry more.

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Michael Watkin - michael@wonderland.apana.org.au
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From: michael@wonderland.apana.org.au (Michael Watkin)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site
Date: 1995/06/23
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