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Re: Bill Gates is still the computer leader

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____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 19 February 2009 20:47 : \____

> RonB wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:13:18 -0600, RickyBobby <nascar42@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bill Gates invented the operating system and the two button mouse and
>>> the graphical user interface and that is why he is still everyone's
>>> hero.
>> 
>> Sometimes WinTrolls are actually funny.
>> 
> 
> Although one should have pity with the dumber ones. Like this
> "RickyBobby". Can you imagine creature like that actually be able to
> handle fork and knife?


http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html

re: ethics

“In the fall of 1968 [… Gates and his friends] caused the system to crash
several times and broke the computers security system. They even altered the
files that recorded the amount of computer time they were using. […] the
Computer Center Corporation decided to hire the students to find bugs and
expose weaknesses in the computer system.”

re: GUI

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took
the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo."

                        --Bill Gates, Microsoft

re: Internet

"The Internet? We are not interested in it."

                        --Bill Gates, 1993

So what /DID/ Microsoft ever invent? Dumpster-diving and robbing Gary Kildall?

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