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Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog'
An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is reporting on a protestation by Dell's CTO, Kevin Kettler, who says quite loudly that they are not Microsoft and Intel's puppet." From the article: "Essentially, Kettler argued, Dell was responsible for selecting, if not necessarily developing, many of the technologies in today's desktop computers and servers. Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking, PCI Express communications technology and 64-bit extensions to Intel's x86 line of processors."
they have proven they are Intel and Microsofts' bitch however.
Al Gore did invent the intarweb so I guess this flies.
Oh really?
Were you living in a cave during the 2000 US Presidential election? If not, you should remember the constant lying about what Al Gore said.
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If not, you should remember the constant lying about what Al Gore said.
Oh, please. He brought it on himself.
Gore would say something stupid, like, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
If he had said "I was the first legislator to recognize the potential of the Internet", like any normal person would have, no one would have faulted him. But the guy was talking about "creating" it.
Then instead of just saying, "look, I was shooting my mouth off" he'd respond (and his supporters would respond) by carefully parsing what he had said and showing how *technically* it wasn't a lie.
And then he'd go and shoot his mouth off again... the union label lullaby, the love canal thing, and on and on.
That's why Gore has a reputation for being a liar.