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To: Swordmaker
Quick side note: Windows 7, like other Microsoft OS’s before it, seems to have borrowed a thing or two from Mac OS X.

In the mid-90s, Gates was giving comments at a techno meeting. In it, he made this statement: 'good ideas are meant to be borrowed; great ideas are meant to be stolen'.


26 posted on 05/28/2008 4:49:06 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
In the mid-90s, Gates was giving comments at a techno meeting. In it, he made this statement: 'good ideas are meant to be borrowed; great ideas are meant to be stolen'.

It was actually Jobs who said that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UjU0rtavE&feature=related

When I did a search for your quote on Yahoo, they were all attributed to you:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu9Z0Wz1IQGEAztBXNyoA?p=gates+%22great+ideas+are+meant+to+be+stolen%22&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8

No malice intended, and if Gates did actually say that I apologize, but I just happened to remember Job's "Picasa" quote and looked it up.

38 posted on 05/28/2008 6:29:15 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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