> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 tim.mann_at_compaq.com wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't there also an issue about Bill Gates & Friends having acquired
> > that code they based it on unethically as well? I seem to recall
> > having read something about that numerous places over a decade ago, or
> > has that little bit of history been rewritten?
>
> It's more the point is that Gates and Co. used U.S. government and Harvard
> University computers to develop their BASIC. If Harvard had done what it
> was well within its rights to do and claimed ownership of the code or placed
> it in the public domain, rather than just giving Gates the boot, the computing
> world might be a somewhat different place.
>
> Gates's entire career has been about theft. Seeing him complain about
> someone stealing from him... The hipocracy is downright funny.
>
>
> Eric
>
Well, there hasn't been a real good book on the early days of Microsoft,
the Harvard incident, MS's buy and kill method of eliminating
competition and inovation, etc.
Seems like no one has the info or guts for the tell all book.
I'd buy copies for a number of folks so they could see what MS and BG
is really about.
Bill
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Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 11:18:02 BST