[LINK] Any more spin, and I'm going to throw up

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:43:07 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200111082243.RAA03265@out-of-band.media.mit.edu>
From: Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>
To: declan@well.com
Subject: Any more spin, and I'm going to throw up

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134363780_microsoft08.html

	Gates also took some credit for the genesis of open-source
	software. He said Microsoft made it possible by standardizing
	computers: "Really, the reason you see open source there at
	all is because we came in and said there should be a platform
	that's identical with millions and millions of machines," he said.

[Surely we don't have to point out that open-source software originated
LOOOONNNNGGG before computers were smaller than the size of rooms, yes?  At
any number of government and research labs and universities, right?  Well,
maybe lots of people need to -keep- pointing this out.]

-- 
Standards are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.
-- unknown

Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd@austarmetro.com.au