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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 18:09:06 -0500
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:42:55 -0500 (EST) From: Lenny Foner <foner () media mit edu> To: dave () farber net Subject: Any more spin, and I'm going to throw up CC: foner () media mit edu http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134363780_microsoft08.htmlGates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be aplatform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said. [Surely we don't have to point out that open-source software originated LOOOONNNNGGG before computers were smaller than the size of rooms, yes? At any number of government and research labs and universities, right? Well, maybe lots of people need to -keep- pointing this out.]
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