RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public

I beg to differ. I'm a veteran of DOS 1.0, Windows 1.0/3.0/WFWG/95 and on. I
can tell you from personal experience, it came from Bill.

John Brandt 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick L Archibald [mailto:Patrick.Archibald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public


I wouldn't give Bill Gates credit for that. Thank the open source 
movement and companies like Google.

Thanx, PLA


Booth Martin wrote:

>Bill Gates has done one thing for our industry and it should not be
>belittled.  The new paradigm is to get software out there for users to
touch
>and feel.  Don't worry about glitches.  If the users like it, fix it.  If
>they reject it, go on to something else and keep your losses small.  That
>makes sense to me.
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>Booth Martin
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>I really loved DeGroot's line about
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>>Microsoft was founded by programmers and is still run by programmers
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>Try "Founded (and still run) by LOUSY programmers"!
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>Can you imagine if the software for the Apollo program were written by
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>Microsloth, instead of by MIT's finest minds? All those "1201 program
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>alarms" probably would have LITERALLY crashed the Lunar Module.
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