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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