--- -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Doug Riddle wrote: > > > rest of them don't get. If MicroSoft gave away copies of Win98 > and > > Office97 after they started selling XP and Office XP, there would > be > > a lot less todo about Linux. > > I've heard Bill Gates quoted before as saying: > > If Windows 3.1 would not have been the most pirated operating > system > ever, it would not have also been the best selling operating system > ever. >
Bill regards it as theft. Bill is an idiot. > So he knows the power of "free" (as in beer) software, and chooses > not to > use it. Too bad the RIAA doesn't see this either... I see history repeating itself. Once upon a time the rail roads were king. Then they got the idea that they ran railroads instead of being in the business of moving goods and people. Now trucks, cars and planes do most of the business trains used to do. RIAA thinks it is in the recording business, and not the music distribution business. Bye RIAA. Microsoft thinks it is in the software business. It should be in the data presentation, transfer and storage business. Bye Microsoft. Microsoft should embrace any vehicle that can bring users to any of its products. No one can be all things to all people... Even God comes in different flavors, but God is working at cross purposes to Mr. Gates, I think. > > -Ray > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana > University > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com ## Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington ## __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
