IP: Fwd: Any more spin, and I'm going to throw up

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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.html
>
>   Gates 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 a
>   platform 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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