After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> Yup. Even Pearly Gates realized that, early on, and worked his ass off
>> to make sure that only Microsoft operating systems are present on new
>> consumer computers.
>
> He also said that the average computer user has the brain of a "spider
> monkey". He later said they would need to get people "kind of addiected" (to
> Windows). The man is a drug dealer. The world's richest crook...
Yeah, the "Triumph of the Nerds" on the Science channel is on now,
talking about how Gates screwed the company that wrote QDOS, itself a
shameless copy of CP/M.
Of course, the other principles in the story made some major errors.
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"I'm going to f'in *kill* Google!"
-- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
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