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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 11:41 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> "Intellectual property is the next software."
>> --Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft patent troll, Bill's best buddy
>>
>> "The last thing this company needs is another fucking [computer] language."
>>
>> --Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/barbariansledbybillgates.htm
>
> Eller saw Myhrvold's mouth move, but when the cosmologist talked, it was
> Gates's voice that Eller heard. Gates wanted all of the languages to be
> the same--BASIC. After all, Gates had written it.
>
> I'd <chuckle>, but the historical revisionism over BASIC is discomfiting.
It's Microsoft's PR (the daughter of Pam) who wrote the book. It does a lot
of revisionism around the antitrust case. Poor Microsoft...
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