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Cringely On Gates' Free Software Connection
cworley writes: "Slashdot
recently reported
on Gates' paternity claims over Open Source at a recent shareholders meeting.
Although Gates' actual statement didn't make a great deal of sense,
it looked as an attempt to revise history to portray himself as the creator
of Open Source by initiating the PC's open architecture (or reverse engineering
the BIOS to wrestle exclusive control of PC system sales from IBM). In
Cringely's
weekly article, he attempts to find the truth in Gates' statement.
IBM's Jack Sams provides an historical perspective of Gates' role in the
genesis of the PC's open architecture.
"
I think Bill Gates wants a cookie
Not to flamebait, but do you troll every he sentence incomprehensible totally?
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
You're name sums it all up, "Retarded_One" A)Small typo. I think you should know that I'm a Roman Catholic, so don't start preaching the Bible to me. B)I work with both MS Windows and Linux. I AM NOT ANTI-MS. Actually, there were some good things that came out of MS. I am a guy, so I am endowed too. C)I am also a Boy Scout. Give me a girl, and I will screw her, fool. D)Though they may, its only for their own benifit (FreeBSD w/ Hotmail for example) They do develop for Mac, but remember- Microsoft wouldn't be as succesfull as it is today. E)It would intrest you, Retarded_One, that right now I am typing this on a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Windows 2000. I develop webs for people, especially for my school. I use Windows, Linux and Mac. I'll be the first to tell you that I prefer the Mac and Linux to Windows any day. However, I give Microsoft a chance constantly. Therefore, start drinking Pepsi, Coke AND go to your local supermarket and buy a few bottles of generic cola. F)Believe what you want to believe, but I'll ask you this- have you yourself used anything other than Windows? It seems to me that you don't have anything to say to me about the crap that Microsoft publishes. Tell me, why does it take a minimum of about 64 Megs of RAM to run WordXP? Why does it take over about 2 GIGS to install Windows XP, and I don't even get an office suite? Why does the OS crash a lot? If you work for a car company, would you get a lot of business if you sold cars that had horrible fuel economy, were as huge and as heavy as heck, had no structural integrity and then sold it for over $100,000? NO!!!! This is what Microsoft is selling us, and therefore an alternative sprung up, GNU. I suggest that you, Retarded_One, realize that Microsoft, as well as any company (or government) has its own downfalls, and people try to find an alternative.
got me there... /. have a Cringley story every <b>time</b> he writes an article? "
"Not to troll, but does