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From: Max Eskin <kurtkilg_at_geocities.com>
Date: Sat Jan 9 12:51:14 1999

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 yowza_at_yowza.com wrote:
> Amiga to have happened in 1975, but if Bill Gates had stayed home and
> Linus Torvalds had been born a little earlier, man what a cool world we'd
> have today, 25 years later.

To tell you the truth, if Bill Gates had stayed home and Linus Torvalds
had never been born, we would have been even better off. I'm using Linux
right now, so I have Linus to thank. But then, I'm using a crappy Compaq
laptop which would never have been made (or made but not this crappy) if
not for Bill Gates. Linux is a solution to a problem that should not have
come about in the first place. I'd much rather be using some version of
the Dynabook, or an Amiga, or something totally different.

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Received on Sat Jan 09 1999 - 12:51:14 GMT