[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[NJ0IP]

Bill, you are thinking too technically.

An original thought did come from Microsoft and it has propagated itself
throughout the world.
Bill set out (if you read his first book) to make computing affordable to
the world.  That was his "original thought".  He accomplished that.  How he
did it is another story, but his original thought was a very noble and
social thought, not a technical thought.  Now if you want to look for
technical originality within Microsoft, there are plenty (or many), but it's
in the form of "middleware" which most people never see and few people
understand.  It is this middleware and the resulting software written by
thousands of ISP's who took advantage of it that has helped catapolt
Microsoft to the leading position it is in.  Few people understand this, but
those who do, also understand that this was planned, it was no coincidence.
And "that" Bill is Microsoft's original thought.

73
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of William Mahaffey
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:00 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long


> John,
>
> Very nicely written piece on the Orion and obviously
coming from another
> ham
> who  really likes the Orion.
>
> Unfortunately your reference to computer software is
seriously scary,
> especially if you look at the time it has taken Mr. Gates
to get his
> Windows
> op system to really work without crashing. It sends
shivers down my back
> to
> think this can be the same long-term problem with SDR's.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>


The history of gates/microsoft/ibm is certainly not as
described. I'm still waiting for an original thought to
come from microsoft.

bill w6eet
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