<p dir="ltr">I though Bill and Co. invented the EULA.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the BSA.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And clippy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And Bob.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the perfect platform for virii and other malware.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bill didn’t “invent” anything including DOS or Windows. He bought DOS from someone else to resell to IBM. Windows was the result of IBM and Microsoft starting
a project to do GUI to compete with Apple (who also didn’t invent GUI – Xerox did). IBM and Microsoft had a parting of the ways with lawsuits and recriminations but the end results were IBM did OS/2 and MS did Windows. Since Windows like DOS ran on multiple
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Maybe Bill would be a good candidate at that – for years people have said IE stands for Internet Exploder. :-)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Keep in mind that, for a lot of people, Bill invented computers. Their first (only?) computer experience is with Windows. Bill invented Windows. Ergo, Bill invented computers.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Jeff Hubbs <<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net" target="_blank">jhubbslist@att.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gates" target="_blank">
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