Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Happy Birthday Linus !
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> | Today is the day when the whole Linux community can congratulate
> | Linus with his Birthday.
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> http://www.youtux.org/content/view/181/2/
Gee, my birthday was yesterday, and nobody even noticed :D.
Happy Birthay Linus, hopefully you'll have a fun party :D
> When Gates was the same age as Linus, he was already doing so much...
Very true. The difference is that Linux did finish college, and Linux
was drafted by the community to support Linux. The important thing is
that both Bill and Linux stepped up to the tasks they had been given,
and produced extraordinary results.
The irony is that the REAL accomplishments of Bill Gates was the PET
and TRS-80. These machines, along with the Apple II, really made the
concept of a "personal" computer, that could be used by "normal
people".
Sure, you had to know BASIC to make them do anything useful, but even
then, other people who knew BASIC could create applications and make
the computer do amazing things.
But then Gates went beyond this and made Microsoft indispensible, by
not only creating the operating system for IBM, but also retained the
rights to sell to other OEMs. Then, rather than just offering "buy
what you need", they priced it like it was ROMs. The OEMs were
required to purchase, and install MS-DOS on every single machine they
sold.
This monopoly power control over the "IBM Compatible" OEM market gave
Microsoft the monopoly power to extend it's monopoly to Window
management systems (Windws vs DesqView, GEM, or X11), then to
Applications.
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