I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Sun May 7 03:00:46 2000

It was thus said that the Great Bill Dawson once stated:
>
> And while I'm on the soapbox, I'll state the obvious. Bill Gates is a
> shrewd thief and an accomplished liar. About the only original product MS
> ever had was BASIC. IBM screwed Digital Research with the pricing of CP/M
> for the PC. Gates was no small part of this.

  How? Bill Gates just licenced MS-DOS to IBM for a cheaper price than DR
did CP/M. I can't see Bill Gates saying to IBM, ``If you don't charge more
for CP/M than for MS-DOS, we'll walk.'' Bill Gates is ruthless but not
stupid.

  -spc (Not that I'm trying to defend him or anything ... )
Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 03:00:46 BST