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

[Mike]

At 02:33 PM 9/11/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134363780_microsof
t08.html

Yep !

As they say "... out of the mouths of babes..."

<sigh>

Amazing how people claim credit for accidents when they open their
mouths,

rgds

Mike




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> 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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