From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 25 16:29: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01C937B40D for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.145]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:29:10 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, joel2a@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:30:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Microsoft bashers Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk In-reply-to: References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <054111029231981PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Aug 01, at 15:03, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > On 04-Aug-2001 joel2a@yahoo.com wrote: > > Well I just have to say that if there wasn't Windows we would all be > > back the days of console prompt typing and there certainly would not be > > as many people on the internet. > > Anyone who begins a post with a statement as absurdly ridiculous as this > deserves only one of two things (or both): to be ignored or killfiled. > Joel, if history wasn't the way it is, it would be different. That does not preclude development of the internet nor something like Windows but different. And the internet started as Unix, IIRC. Until recently Bill Gates was on public record as saying that the internet was not going to be important ... even the devil can be wrong ;-)) And I do believe that GUIs were invented elsewhere and Microsoft copied and even purloined some of the code. Though I stand to be corrected about that. Conrad, your reply to Joel was somewhat OTT, but heartfelt for all that. Happy computing, chaps ;-)) Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message