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Cringely On Gates' Free Software Connection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-on-bob's-bad-side dept.

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. "

10 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. how far will gates go to revise history? by e1en0r · · Score: 1, Troll

    i wonder what microsoft encarta says about the origins of open source? if anything. would they go so far as to claim gates was the creator of it?

  2. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection by TRoLLaXoR · · Score: -1, Troll

    WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?

  3. gates by dsinner · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's get Gates in put him on the first plane to Afghanistan.

    You figure he'd find /bin/laden in a matter of days, they're both unwanted, greedy clueless fools who enjoy creating their own fantasy world.

    Birds of a feather flock together, no?

  4. Re:What to do when Taco blows you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first i would have anal sex with him so he could suck the shit offa my cocka!

    by the way, damnit, someone is using anon....com for anonymized websurfing just like me and i have to wait after thier posts for 2 minutes. this blows!

  5. UPDATE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    After realizing that I am gay, I stopped in the local gay bar and tried to get picked up. The only guy who would go for me had a harelip and a mullet. He had some nice leather chaps, but I'm pretty sure I'm back to straight now.

  6. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    everyone knows that vaseline makes hair grow more and faster......right?

  7. FLASH UPDATE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just got a hard-on while watching a tape of WWF wrestling. I am leaning more towards the "I am gay" theory at this time.

    1. Re:FLASH UPDATE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      but dont you know every person gets turned on by the look of hairy, smelly, sweaty....reminds me of my ex wife....kind of people. it all goes back to our time as cavemen where there was no such thing as www.goatse.cx and the only thing close to it was to view the read thing. oh yes my friend, homosexuality did exist in those times.

      next slashdot post: how to build a time machine!

  8. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

  9. fuck me by posmon · · Score: 0, Troll
    Steve Wozniak creating the Apple II as an open architecture with millions of users

    ...i always wondered where those cheap apple clones were coming from...

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