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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> All the Myth about Microsoft!
>
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>| * Microsoft was first with graphical user interface
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>| * Microsoft designed BASIC Language
>|
>| * Microsoft designed visual basic
>|
>| * Microsoft invented DOS
>|
>| * Microsoft designed the first spreadsheet - Excel
>|
>| * Microsoft designed the first word processor
>|
>| * First with Internet browser
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>
> http://196.2.70.231:8080/ict_blog/open-ict-hacks/microsoft-myth
>
> Microsoft were wise enough to name their operating system in a way that makes
> them seem like inventors whose work is copied. Just describing this paradigm
> would involve uttering the word 'windows'.
>
> My younger brother told me last week that if Linux has a window/frame
> interface, then it has probably copied from Microsoft. Many people would
> actually believe that Internet Explorer was the seminal piece of work on the
> Web (the browser is titled "Internet"), so busting of these myths is a task
> that should not be taken for granted.
>
Microsoft have been very successful at marketing themselves, possibly
the most successfull organisation of all time in this respect. There's
no doubt that this has left a whole generation of people utterly
confused as to what /really/ happened, and what did not. Most of
Microsoft's own publications have a presentation of events which is at
best questionable, and is probably most accurately considered to be
propaganda.
Winston Churchill had much the same view, paraphrasing "History will be
kind to me, because I shall write it!"
Well, I moot that the time be right to begin writing the history of
linux and free & open-source software.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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