* amicus_curious fired off this tart reply:
> My feeling is that you are blinded by the light. Microsoft has not been
> particularly ruthless in any regard.
Ah ha ha ha ha!
"At [one] time, I felt the only thing that was going to stop the
guy was his ego," Kahn said of Gates. "He's got a
shitload of it. You sit down and you listen to this little prick
going on about how he's going to put everybody out of
business" It's not right, for the industry, for the
customers' In an industry that is growing as fast as ours, why
is nobody making money but Microsoft? Something very bizarre is going
on at the top."
he [Kildlall] wrote of Gates, "I have grown up in this industry
with Gates. He is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has
taken much from me and the industry. To those who knew the industry,
Gates's DOS was a blatant misappropriation of proprietary
materials, and of my personal pride and achievements."
Gates met Noorda briefly in San Francisco to discuss the merger à
before the merger could go forward, he said Novell had to drop its
plans to buy Digital Research. à when Noorda raised the possibility
that the Justice Department might try to block a merger between the
first and third biggest software companies on the planet, Gates
responded, "Don't worry, we know how to handle the federal
government." à Gates denied every saying such a thing
> I don't think that is particularly true, the more so since you do not have
> even a hint of any instance of this.
I snipped the rest of your airy poofery.
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Tux rox!
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