Interview with a wallet Vampire

[Gonusto]

If you've got the time, read this interview with Bill Gates from CNN.  But the quote below is the interesting part.  

quote:NEXT@CNN: Do you envision any circumstance under which Microsoft might divulge part of its source code for Windows?

GATES: Well, actually, our customers have licenses to the Microsoft source code. The key point is that we're still paid when people use Windows, so we can hire smart people, create jobs, pay taxes and things like that. But lots of those people who need it actually do get access to that source code.

 For some reason I don't think Bill's telling us the truth.  I wonder what *needs* as person has to have to get a copy of that code?  And I wonder how much of your life you have you have to sign over . . . ?


-Gonusto

[TB]

Oh......you won't have to sign over your life......you've already done that by using M$ products online. And Bill Gates already has control over the minds of millions of brainless windows users, so that leaves only one thing left for you to surrender to Bill Gates:

YOUR SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!

[lu666s]

Debill -- expletive; indicating a strong dislike of Gates and anything that is related to him; that can be also expressed as an enthusiastic disagreement with EULA.  

Debillity -- a chronic affliction of addictive nature to one of  Macro$uck OS.
         

[ March 02, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]

[dbl221]

quote: In our industry, companies like Xerox or AT&T are famous not just for doing fairly good research, but in many cases not ever being able to bring it to the marketplace.

Yeah ok Bill their research is just "fairly good"......cuz like no-one uses Ethernet or Unix.  :rolleyes:

[NESnerd]

Didn't Xerox make the mouse? You know the thing you move and then your cursor follows it around? Yeah, I guess that thing never really caught on. It's too bad too, that was a good idea.

[psyjax]

Ya, interesting to how Xerox sold that funny GUI idea to Apple back in the day. To bad THAT never caught on  

[swayda]

Actually a disgruntled Xerox employee stole the code for the GUI and became an Apple employee, least if I remember correctly. When Apple threatened to sue M$ over the GUI thing Xerox told Apple that if they did they would be sued by Xerox.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by swayda:
Actually a disgruntled Xerox employee stole the code for the GUI and became an Apple employee, least if I remember correctly. When Apple threatened to sue M$ over the GUI thing Xerox told Apple that if they did they would be sued by Xerox.

Nope thats an urban legend I am afraid. Apple DID in fact sue M$, the suit started at Win32 and ended when Apple hit financial problems. They forced M$ to settle by buying nin-voting stock, and releasing Mac versions of their software.

Heres a fairly accurate treatmrnt of this subject:

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html