On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Mike Bilow wrote:
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} Jonathan NAYLOR wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
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} JN> I hate to be a spoil sport, but the implication in your mail
} JN> that Bill Gates was the first to produce commercial software
} JN> and that before everything was free and open is essentially
} JN> wrong (despit what Levy says).
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} Yes, but it was Gates who, in those days, earned a reputation for sending
} whining letters to the computer magazines complaining about software piracy.
} He was just obsessed with the issue and became identified with it.
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} -- Mike
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Based on my own illegal use of DOS 1.01 through 4.1 which it
seemed everyone was doing gave Bill Gates the reason to be obsessed by the
wide spread use. I bought version 5.0 because I wanted the book, and I was
then being paid better and could afford it.
Since Bill Gates is so rich now it appears his worries were not
founded, or, they didn't matter. I suspect it doesn't matter because
people like Netscape give away their product and still make good money.
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Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 524-3303 -
