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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (51632)10/19/2000 9:58:21 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
rudedog,

Thanks for setting the FACTS straight on Basic. Unfortunately SUNW people/zealots do not seem to care about the facts at all. Or else they would question the multiple assigned to their beloved stock.

BK



To: rudedog who wrote (51632)10/19/2000 11:32:09 AM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
classic clean room development... --- Uh huh. Classic. --- Of course, having the source code didn't hurt. When I said 'stealing', I meant that it wasn't in any particular contrast to the software mindset of the day. *He's the guy who started calling it stealing. --- That, as oppposed to 'borrowing heavily' like DOS did from CP/M, like Windows did from Apple, Like NT did from... -JCJ



To: rudedog who wrote (51632)10/19/2000 11:38:19 AM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
...not supposed to ne used for "commercial" purposes. --- This, as opposed to Bill Joy's clean room development of an entire free operating system, which is used today commercially (massively), for the common network and mastering Microsoft CDs. -JCJ


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