HP3000-L Archives

June 1995, Week 2

HP3000-L@RAVEN.UTC.EDU

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
WirtAtmar <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
WirtAtmar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 8 Jun 1995 00:02:31 -0400
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (24 lines)
Ron Seybold writes:
 
>In article <[log in to unmask]>,
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
 
>> The editorial below will appear in this week's TIME magazine, whose
cover
>> story this week is Bill Gates. I liked it enough to waste a little
bandwidth;
 
>[Simplistic editorial, ceding total control of computers
>to Gates, snipped]
 
>Leave it to Time to sound-bite our industry. I love the part
>in the editorial about how monopolies are good: the phone
>system worked better when AT&T was the only game in town...
>Give us less of Gates. He won't make computers easier to use
>unless it fills his overstuffed billfold. He certainly hasn't yet.
 
I'm sure he was kidding, Ron. It's a trick editorial writers use sometimes
just to get you stirred up :-)
 
Wirt Atmar

ATOM RSS1 RSS2