[Ilugc] Re: Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

  • From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
  • Date: Sun Jun 29 10:22:05 2008

Hello,

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, shirish wrote:

http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

Even Newton (who was definitely *not* a nice guy) admitted that he
saw further by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Politics, marketing and economics are a part of Life that influences
innovation and research. Since most of us live for the latter we
despise this interference!

However, not all of these influences are negative. For example,

        http://jbailey.livejournal.com/55585.html

A post that I would mostly agree with except that I gave up on MS in
1991-92 after my first taste of GNU software.

Regards,

Kapil.
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