On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:24:13PM +0800, ronnie henry wrote: > Hi guys! > > There's this WIRED article talking about Bill Gates taking > credit for Open Source: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011122.html
That's from Cringely's Pulpit, not Wired, apparently. :) And yeah, the original stockholders' meeting created quite a fuss over at slashdot when it was first announced. Here's the link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/08/1916230&mode=nested Here's my favorite comment: Re:Driving people to open source (Score:5, Funny) by Exedore on Thursday November 08, @08:00PM (#2539572) (User #223159 Info) So wat he's saying is that the mass adoption of their inflexible software has driven people to create open products that will meet their needs, or am I misinterpreting him ? ;) Yeah, that's kinda like Osama bin Laden patting himself on the back for doing his part to beef up airport security. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
