On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:34 PM, leaking pen <[email protected]> wrote:
I've never heard anyone malign his programming skills. moral character, > visual design skills, absolutely, but never his coding chops. > Gates was at the helm of Microsoft when it acquired DOS. DOS came out many years after and was an anorexic imitation of UNIX. It is an abomination that has lived well beyond its years and caused generations of developers great harm and suffering. Gates may have acquired the software for tactical purposes, or he may have thought it was a beautiful piece of software; I would bet he didn't know any better and thought it was pretty cool. Eric
