From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 25 17:28:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA23856 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA23850 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id SAA05104; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:27:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199708260027.SAA05104@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:27:55 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 25, 97 05:56:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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