On Jun 26, 7:37 am, Ezekiel <Z...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rex Ballard wrote:
> > On Jun 25, 3:43 pm, Snit <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Rick stated in post 97SdnVjyhNwuUt7XnZ2dnUVZ_s6dn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on
> >> 6/25/09 12:27 PM:
> >> > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:47:32 -0400, Hans Lister wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:42:52 -0500, Rick wrote:
> >> >> When you can't give away something that is free, you have a serious
> >> >> problem on your hands.
>
> >> > Your major problem is your lack of honesty.
>
> >> How does a monopoly out-compete *free*?
> > Microsoft found a way 30 years ago. In 1978, Gates told MITS
> > corporation that if they did not pay him $150,000, about $50 for every
> > computer they planned to sell, that Micro-soft (aka Microsoft) would
> > write BASIC for their biggest competitor, the SWTP 6900 based
> > computer.
> (SNIP - usual lies that have no proof)
> Since your entire argument is based on what Bill Gates told MIPS where's the
> proof? Were you there - NO. So how do you know what he said?
> Run away now liar.
Microsoft executive bragged about it. This included Paul Allen, Bill
Gates, and later, Steve Ballmer.
They also explained that they had been using "per processor"
licensing.
Les Solomon, of Popular Electronics fame was the president of MITS
(not MIPS), and also told the story.
The scene was also shown in the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" a
biograpphy of Steve Jobs, Steve Wazniak, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and
Steve Ballmer from their earliest days in the technology industry. It
includes the "whistler" which Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak sold as a
way to cheat the phone company, until they were pulled over by the
police who didn't realize what the electronics devices were and let
them go. Woz was afraid that the FBI would bust in soon if they
didn't find a more "honest" product. Woz built the Apple as an
alternative to the "whistler".
There was also a pretty detailed description in one of Microsoft's
early books on Windows NT that was published right after NT came out,
as a way to promote NT.
Brill's Content published an issue featuring Bill Gate's mug shot at
about the time that the DOJ vs Microsoft case just opened up. Brill's
content was able to confirm that Bill had been arrested, and that his
father flew out to Albuquerque NM before Bill Gates was arraigned, and
was able to negotiate a settlement which effectively purged the
records, leaving no record of the actual charges or the actual
arrest. This was very shortly after Gates had made the demand of
MITS.
In the movie, there is a scene where Bill Gates and someone else goes
"drag racing" in a pair of steam rollers, and crushes Paul Allen's
car. This might have been the reason for the arrest.
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