On: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:55:12PM -0500,Winship Wrote:

} Rich Greenberg wrote:
} > They will probably take the IBM stance: "We don't have to follow
} > standards.  We set standards."
} 
} Gee, I thought that was the M$OFT/Bill Gates position.  After all, they
} did invent the Internet, didn't they, even though it would never amount
} to anything.    :-)

IBM did it before M$ existed.  Gates saw a good thing and adopted it.


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