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To: Jake The Goose

Agreed. Lots of Gates bashing here. Sounds like sour grapes of Gates' success. Few remember he told IBM to shove it, and he went on to build an empire.


66 posted on 06/15/2006 3:05:26 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Cobra64
ew remember he told IBM to shove it, and he went on to build an empire.

Sounds wonderful. Too bad it's more like:

remember he entered into a contract with IBM to build their next generation OS, then after IBM had sunk millions of dollars into OS/2, stole a lot of stuff and ran, eventually giving the world Windows NT.

75 posted on 06/15/2006 3:59:36 PM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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