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Invisible wrote:
> The way I heard it was that Gates got some code off a mate and then
> decided to sell it for money, pretending it was his own.
Where did you hear it? Hint: don't trust that source.
Nobody goes "Gee, I happen to have an OS for a new CPU. Want a copy of the
source and all the development notes?"
> At work, I use two web-based applications which actually don't work
> without IE.
There's a tremendous difference between using a browser as a smart terminal
for a limited application, and browsing the general public web.
Know what? I can dial 3 digits at work and get any other phone in the
office, too. But that only works on my office phone.
>> So, first you complain that MS sucks, then you admit that everyone
>> else sucks worse.
>
> No, I said M$ has carefully arranged it so that you don't have much
> choice. They deliberately stop people from making better products.
Give an actual cite with some actual data, rather than just pulling stories
out of your butt. :-)
> I wouldn't mind if M$ was top dog because they actually made the best
> products, but that's simply not true.
So, nobody makes any better products, but MS doesn't make the best?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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