Bill getting away...

[CK Raju]

Bill Gates might have received the right message from ReactOS team and
decided to flee the scene after converting his stock into cash. He has
duped all the investors of Microsoft.

"  This summer, after 30 years at the helm of Microsoft, Bill Gates
(pictured) will finally take retirement. But can he let go and can
Microsoft afford to let him go?..." so goes the story at
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10457

Cheers,
CK Raju
India

[Timothy D. Lenz]

"Five years later, it created the breakthrough MS-DOS operating system as
part of a project with IBM. The rest is history."

Err, at the risk of turning this into another ms bash, From what I have
read, they BOUGHT dos for a few hundred dollars, slaped there name on it and
presented it to IBM as theirs. From there they went on to "aquire"
advancements. About dos 5 they added undelete and a few other things they
got from PCTools. Drive compression was also aquired, as was much that went
into windows.

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From: "CK Raju" <raju.mes(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: [ros-general] Bill getting away...


>   Bill Gates might have received the right message from
> ReactOS team and
>  decided to flee the scene after converting his stock into cash. He has
>  duped all the investors of Microsoft.
>
>  "  This summer, after 30 years at the helm of Microsoft, Bill Gates
>  (pictured) will finally take retirement. But can he let go and can
>  Microsoft afford to let him go?..." so goes the story at
>  http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10457
>
>  Cheers,
>  CK Raju
>  India
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>  Ros-general(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

[Dennis Myhand]

Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>   Drive compression was also aquired, as was much that
> went
>  into windows.
>  
>  
Actually, drive compression was stolen from Stack-It, (which I bought 
just prior to MSDOS 6.0, and immediately saw that both Stack-It and 
drive compression used all the same commands), a company they then 
bought in order to get out of the law suit.  Most of what MS added to 
MSDOS in the early days was the result of buying the competition or 
stealing from them.


-- 
"Maybe I'm wrong, but I should say that in ten years textbooks as the 
principal medium of
teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now."  Thomas 
Edison, 1925

Win 95 had allot of Mac OS 922

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Myhand <dmyhand(a)ednaisd.org>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:41:44 
To:ReactOS General List <ros-general(a)reactos.org>
Subject: Re: [ros-general] Bill getting away...


Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>   Drive compression was also aquired, as was much that
> went
>  into windows.
>  
>  
Actually, drive compression was stolen from Stack-It, (which I bought 
just prior to MSDOS 6.0, and immediately saw that both Stack-It and 
drive compression used all the same commands), a company they then 
bought in order to get out of the law suit.  Most of what MS added to 
MSDOS in the early days was the result of buying the competition or 
stealing from them.


-- 
"Maybe I'm wrong, but I should say that in ten years textbooks as the 
principal medium of
teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now."  Thomas 
Edison, 1925

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[Dennis Myhand]

davidjohnson.johnson(a)gmail.com wrote:
>   Win 95 had allot of Mac OS 922
>  
>  Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>   
I believe your timeline is off just a bit.  9.2.2 came out sometime in 
2001 because 9.0 had just come out when I first started working in 
schools in Texas in 2000.  Win95 was on the fast track to no longer 
supported when 9.2.2 hit the hard drives.  And glad I was when it passed 
from the scene.  That was the buggiest POS I have seen.


-- 
"Maybe I'm wrong, but I should say that in ten years textbooks as the 
principal medium of
teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now."  Thomas 
Edison, 1925