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Wednesday, July 2

History (edited)

Bill Gates' interview in USA Today is jaw-droppingly disingenuous:
USA TODAY: There seems to be some worry at Microsoft about Linux ... How much of this is a concern?
Bill Gates: Well those are our current competitors. I mean, it's no different than in the past people used [IBM's operating system] OS/2.
Is this the same man who said (in the forward to the OS/2 Programmer's guide):
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over
10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for
everyone involved with PCs."
Talk about revisionism. I remember going for an interview in Redmond back in 1990 and there were OS/2 machines all over the place even then - they were the only stable systems to develop on.

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