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

[Jim Kinney]

I though Bill and Co. invented the EULA.

And the BSA.

And clippy.

And Bob.

And the perfect platform for virii and other malware.
On Dec 10, 2015 9:34 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> 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.
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> Maybe Bill would be a good candidate at that – for years people have said
> IE stands for Internet Exploder.  :-)
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> *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
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> 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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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
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> It's an odd choice on more than one level. Of the US' "tech titans," isn't
> Gates the one who never quite "got" the Internet when he could have
> leveraged it the most?
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> On 12/9/15 9:36 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
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> I chuckled at the mention of Gates as well.....
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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> This made me laugh out loud.  Now I _have_ to vote for him.
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> Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet
> http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gates
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