[Gllug] RE: Gllug Digest, Vol 21, Issue 15

[David Abbishaw]

What good is a car without Petrol?  People wouldn't have bought a PC without
software to run on it.  The same way as people aren't buying (in the masses)
Satellite receivers to receive 2000 english channels that aren't sky.

Message: 5
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:01:22 +0000
From: Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re: Gates to get Knighthood!!! (Andrew Halliwell)
To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Message-ID: <20050302180122.GA1985 at phaistos.bruce>
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:39:23PM -0000, David wrote:
> I'm sorry and I'll probably have millions of people shooting at me for
this
> comment BUT - If it wasn't for Bill Gates PC's would not be as they are
> today, he is responsible for bringing computers to the masses.  And
without
> cheap and readily available Intel x86 computers where would Linux be
today?

Rubbish.  IBM and the clone manufacturers brought computers to the
masses.  Maybe you are too young to remember.


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