[ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet

[Damon L. Chesser]

and I quote from Brian below:  Keep in mind that, for a lot of people, 
Bill invented computers  End quote.

I would think that everybody on this list knows the history behind 
windows/linux (but not systemd)  (OK, that was a joke, only a joke) but 
the average person does not know any of that.

On 12/10/2015 09:31 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
> 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 vendors’ PCs it took off better than OS/2.
>
> Maybe Bill would be a good candidate at that – for years people have 
> said IE stands for Internet Exploder.  :-)
>
> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Brian Stanaland
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:06 AM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates 
> to "close up" the internet
>
> 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.
>

SNIP


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Damon L. Chesser
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