--- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:43:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200111082243.RAA03265@out-of-band.media.mit.edu> From: Lenny Foner <fonerat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Any more spin, and I'm going to throw up http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134363780_microsoft08.html Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said. [Surely we don't have to point out that open-source software originated LOOOONNNNGGG before computers were smaller than the size of rooms, yes? At any number of government and research labs and universities, right? Well, maybe lots of people need to -keep- pointing this out.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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