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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <ERIC.95Jun21170849@marble.telebit.com> eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith) writes:
>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,

I could turn around and say that his fucked up decisions have MADE
the computer industry billions.  Companies that make memory managers,
or tools like Symantec and Norton wouldn't exist if Bill had created
a better OS.  I think he's cost the business world billions in lost
time spent rebooting your computer...

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

Good business decisions, bad programming decisions.  640K limit?
Need I say more?

Ravi
--
"Linux is stable, Windoze is the stuff you find on the floor of a stable."

Ravi K. Swamy                http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rkswamy/www/
rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu         root@sdf2.nowhere.to.be.seen.in.the.footage

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From: rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site
Date: 1995/06/22
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organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
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