Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:46 AM 8/2/1999 +1000, Horst Schmidt wrote: >For MS-DOS have a look at the pre-dating Unix and also Digital Research >products. >If you followed MS-Dos from version 1 to Version 6, you'll find a lot of small >routines which where already on the market by smaller companies and even by >some shareware >people. See Dos Edit. > > Well, no, Horst. Gates was smart enough to take freeware and to adopt it to the needs of his customers. He is a brilliant technician and a brilliant marketer. Theft is theft: if DR or the others had properly protected their products AND had understood the marketplace, Gates would still be just another pencil-in-pocket-protector computer nerd, and we'd be using someone else's products. I use WordPerfect and Netscape, but only because I, ultimately, got them as freebies. I have five computers, all PC clones, and all with Windows (one 386 with 3.1, three Pentium I's with Windows 95, and a Pentium II with '98). Love 'em all. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!