And while I would dearly love (really!) to sit here this fine and stormy evening, and engage in textual sparing with you; it is a Friday night after all, and I have places to go and people to meet, and I'm running late as it is.
Why don't you go back to Redmond and place your olfactory receptor in Mr. Bills waste port and breath deep that fine MS air.
Good riddance, you have nothing to but vile language and claims of pity to offer anyway.
That is absolutely true. A while back in this thread he tried to blame the troubles of UNIX on IBM pulling out of Project Monterey. I showed him the facts and they just whizzed by above his head. Facts simply have no place in the mind of the ideologue. We see this with Democrats every day.
About Ben Franklin, it was nice of him to give his inventions to the public domain. In fact a good case can be made for his doing so helping us win the Revolutionary War. Franklin was the one mostly responsible for getting us support from France, and he was extremely well-liked in France because of his free inventions, especially the lightning rod. This had him immediately running in court circles schmoozing his way to the king, along the way gathering courtesan support that the king wouldn't be able to resist.