[ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet

[Charles Shapiro]

I reckon we'll find out if "most people" is enough to get Mr. Trump
elected.

Be Very Scared.

-- CHS


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, DjPfulio <DjPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> But most people don't know these facts. To them, Bill Gates created the PC
> and Bill Gates created the Internet.
>
> I believe Windows beat oS/2 because the hardware requirements for Windows
> were much lighter than those required for os/2.
> Don't forget that Windows was not popular until version 3.0 and os/2 was
> not useful until version 2.1.
>
>
>
> On 10 December 2015 09:31:22 GMT-05:00, "Lightner, Jeff" <
> JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bill didn’t “invent” anything including DOS or Windows.   He bought DOS
>> from someone else to resell to IBM.   Windows was the result of IBM and
>> Microsoft starting a project to do GUI to compete with Apple (who also
>> didn’t invent GUI – Xerox did).   IBM and Microsoft had a parting of the
>> ways with lawsuits and recriminations but the end results were IBM did OS/2
>> and MS did Windows.   Since Windows like DOS ran on multiple vendors’ PCs
>> it took off better than OS/2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe Bill would be a good candidate at that – for years people have said
>> IE stands for Internet Exploder.  :-)
>>
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>> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Brian
>> Stanaland
>> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:06 AM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Fwd: Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to
>> "close up" the internet
>>
>>
>>
>> Keep in mind that, for a lot of people, Bill invented computers. Their
>> first (only?) computer experience is with Windows. Bill invented Windows.
>> Ergo, Bill invented computers.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>
>> It's an odd choice on more than one level. Of the US' "tech titans,"
>> isn't Gates the one who never quite "got" the Internet when he could have
>> leveraged it the most?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/15 9:36 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
>>
>> I chuckled at the mention of Gates as well.....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This made me laugh out loud.  Now I _have_ to vote for him.
>>
>> Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet
>> http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gates
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