Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[mpike@nmia.com (Mike Pike)]

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.

Mike


Bruce Baker (Bruce.Baker@juge.com) wrote:
: I didn't see this movie but people who poopoo Bill Gates are missing a lot.
: Gates obviously does a lot of things right or his company wouldn't be where it
: is.  This is the pure and simple fact.  Now you may not like the man, or you
: may be jealous of the man and his wealth.  But the fact is he has kept quality
: very high and he has satisfied his customers.   Otherwise people would have
: bought other software.  Now they may not have a choice about operating systems,
: but they do on software.  I have always refused to use internet explorer but I
: am about to at least not totally avoid it.  It is a good product, perhaps
: better than Netscape (which I always use when I can).
: 
: Word is also very good.
: 
: I think Win98 and Win 95 are very buggy, but that is probably because they have
: had to become maclike.  MacOs was always more buggy that Win 3.1.  
: 
: There is plenty of competition out there.  Yes, I do think someday Microsoft
: will someday fall from its heights.  But it will probably be after Gates is
: dead or has retired.
: 
: Bruce