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"Ang" <adduci@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<Ct_Ub.1548$WY4.980952@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> But he/they didn't CREATE BASIC....just their version of it.
> Didn't CREATE C.
> Didn't CREATE C++.
> Didn't CREATE SQL...HTML....XML..BROWSERS...Windowing....etc
No they did not but Ang Ducci did create all those sw.
> 
> Took features of Java and C++ and "made" C#.
> 
> In fact, what has MS ever  CREATED. They bought, stole, renamed and copied
> their way to the top.
What did they steal?
They have copied features but every company eventualy does?
All car companies have automatic transmissions, steering wheel etc

> 
> They even had the balls to take the common word NET and make it into a
> product.
Like other corps did not. International is a common word Business is a common
word, Machine is a common word.
Java is an island. Miramba is an instrument. What is the point?
> 
> That alone should tell everyone what MS is about.
> 
> Gates was a geek who made it on he business sense not programming.
> 
> 
> "Richard Hutnik" <richardhutnik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "David Fabian" <david.m.fabian@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > > "Tom_O" <tom_overton_1968@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>  news:b4d9ceca.0402051522.6bf0936c@posting.google.com...
> > > > yf@ziplip.com (Your Friend) wrote in message
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> > > >
> > > > Bill Gates(who himself is a programmer)
> > >
> > > You are too kind ... what programming did Bill Gates ever do
> > > (besides a few funky programs in high school)?
> >
> > Gates developed Microsoft Basic, and his team developed other
> > programming languages also.  He is the reason why "Ready" in basic got
> > changed to "Ok" (it saved a few bytes).
> >
> > Gates is a techie geek, but also he has business sense.
> > - Richard Hutnik