Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?) Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 19:17:11 GMT References: <2467@beguine.UUCP> <29814@usc> <70471@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 26 In-reply-to: scott@erick.gac.edu's message of 11 Feb 91 00:30:18 GMT >>>>> edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) writes: Edward> p.s.: re bill gates: - a few years ago, as a publicity stunt, Edward> Bill Gates challenged a buncha other big name industry types - Edward> all programmers - to a public programming contest. He won. Edward> Perhaps you should meet the man, Ajay, before you sneer so Edward> publicly. >>>>> On 11 Feb 91 00:30:18 GMT, scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) said: Scott> Hmm. I think it'd be sort of fun to put Gates in the arena with Scott> Richard Stallman. Though I'm sure Stallman would refuse, we can Scott> still imagine how it would go . . . Yup. And let's have, say, Gosling and Wall in there, too. Come on, Edward. We all know Gates must be good at something. He wouldn't have made it that far if not. But it wasn't his programing skill that made him a gazillion dollars. (What's this doing in comp.sys.next? I have redirected followup's). /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | Beauty is a French phonetic corruption CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | - FZ