Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: software, engineering, and microsoft
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:58:18 EDT

In a message dated 10/4/03 4:52:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, abridge@mac.com 
writes:

> Under no circumstances should you see Microsoft as an innovator in any area
>  other than ferocious defense of its monopoly.
>  
>  Adam
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Agreed. Business acumen is Gates' specialty. He was creative in the DOS era, 
but his understanding of where the originality comes from is also part of his 
success. I don't know if this is true, but it seems to me that he personally 
puts in a lot of his own time and labor in certain projects. 

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