> >Gates rattles on disingenuously about innovation, but he has, in fact, > >innovated virtually nothing except very smart marketing. He _purchased_ > >DOS. He got IBM's contract for PC-DOS almost by accident (it was really > >supposed to go to the CP/M folks, but that's another story for another > >day). He cloned the Mac/Xerox/Amiga GUI ideas (Apple sued him and > >lost, but that was a legal and not a technical matter). > > That's right. In fact, the BASIC interpreter that started Meikro$oft was > a ripoff of the Tiny BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, so Meikro$oft > is a company with a LONG history of 0 creativity. This is the reason M$ > is so powerful, because they steal other companies ideas, get sued, beat > the company in court, accusing them of "being jealous," and then they > destroy the other company. It's not competition in the software market, > it's plagairism (did I spell that correctly?). And strangely, none of the > M$ fans ever believe me when I tell them just how devious M$ can be... > > -Eric- We are starting to get way off topic here, but BASIC for the Atair 8800 was the start of Microsoft. Daniel McDonough