Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:27:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... Message-ID: <199708260027.SAA05104@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825175427.1888B-100000@Journey2.mat.net> from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 25, 97 05:56:44 pm
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Chuck Robey said:
> This is more than a little irritating. It's nearly impossible nowadays to
> buy a PC without contributing to MS, whether you intend to run Windows or
> not. They _didn't_ fairly win the market, they _aren't_ fairly keeping
> the market, sure they have good tools, because they have outright stolen
> what they couldn't buy (see Stacker!).
And, wonder of wonders, they didn't develope MS-DOS either! They bought
a couple of "licenses to use", disassembled it, and developed MS-DOS
from that. This was proven in court by the original creators circa 1988-
89, when Microsoft was forced to pay them some $20 million in reparation.
Needless to say, *this* was the buy of the century!
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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