Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker)]

 >I am a PC user... I collect alot of old apple stuff.. the old ]['s
 >//gs, and the like, as well as other machines....
 >
 >I recently obtained a //gs in mint condition with the OS disks... and
 >let me tell you something... Apple did GSOS back in the 80;s and put it on
 >ONE DISK.. what Microsoft markets as win98 and puts on a CD.... the *ONLY*
 >reason MS is where it is today, is because Steve jobs was too stubborn
 >to license his OS to other machines... had Apple let the GUI MacOS out to
 >IBM - you would be using Apple's OS on you intel right now....
 >
 >Gates has not invented anything - he has taken other's ideas, made a
 >few changes, and sold it... Gates is a salesmen, thats the bottom line, he
 >knows how to market, and that's why he is where he is today.
 
I tend to agree with that, Jobs was running a software company.  Why he didn't
allow it to be licensed?  Well, he preferred margin to market share.
 
But if if and buts and candy and nuts ....
 
Bruce