[plug] [OT] Open source originator Bill Gates speaks out

[Mark Baker]

It has previously been stated that Linux would not exist without:

Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
Bill Gates

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Mark Baker

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:31 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] [OT] Open source originator Bill Gates speaks out


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134363780_microsoft
08.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.

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