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

[Adam Todd]

>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.

This surely isn't a Gates quote.  He's not that stupid.

>[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.]

And the reality that open source isn't (generally) platform dependent.  In 
fact it's highly ported because it is open source.

Something those that develop o/src software are generally proud of, cause 
their damn names get attached to just about ever existing and historic 
computer system on the planet!