Date:  Sat, 02 Oct 2004 21:46:35 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Net: Gates jokes about OS/2


From: madodel at ptdprolog.net 

http://infoworld.com/article/04/10/01/HNgatestalksmuseum_1.html

"Gates undaunted by Linux
 
By  Paul Krill 	October 01, 2004 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --  Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Chairman
and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday
at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping
Windows in the software industry..."

""Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we
have museums to document that," said Gates, eliciting laughter from the
audience at the museum. "I'm not saying, 'This computer will go away,' but
OS/2 was supposed to kill us."

IBM (Profile, Products, Articles), with 10 times the number of employees
as Microsoft, could not stop Windows with OS/2, he noted..."
 

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