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From: Roger Johnstone
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 05:49
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 05:49
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In article <9sf03i$12tsqt$1@ID-105510.news.dfncis.de>, "Adam Warner"
<usenet@consulting.net.nz> wrote:
> Bill Gates also took credit for the open source revolution:
>
> Let me start out, really the reason that you see open source there at
> all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's
> identical with millions and millions of machines, and the bios of that
> should be open to everybody to use, and all the extensibility should be
> there. And so it was very predictable that once we had gotten the PC
> going, and going and gotten hundreds of millions of machines out there,
> that it had always been sort of free software and the universities
> would flourish and there would be more of that.
My god, I had no idea. I always assumed it was IBM that developed the IBM
PC. It turns out it was actually Microsoft!
--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - iMac Voodoo2 - Warcraft II
http://homepage.mac.com/rojaws
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