Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO Impress and Audio.... Is XP the culprit?

On 20/04/11 17:16, Wayne Borean wrote:
> I'll disagree with that. Windows didn't open the World. Unix did. Windows
> just imitated what Unix did, ten years later.
>
> Wayne
I second that. Moreover, Bill Gates wrenched DOS from a few nerds in, I 
thought 1981 and sold it to IBM. The only reason IBM went for Bill Gates 
was the fact that the company who had developed CP/M ( then one of the 
most versatile OSes implemented on various computers from Osborne to 
Amstrad and many others) refused IBM exclusivity.
Microsoft developed Windows much later - in 1983 if I remember correctly 
-The Windows GUI was not invented by Microsoft but was originally 
developed in a XEROX laboratory in I thought Palo Alto. It was first 
kidnapped by Apple and claimed as their own and later by Microsoft 
(American lawyers have had field years on the lawsuits by MS against 
Apple and vice versa.
Unix on the other hand came into in existence in 1979 in the Bell 
Laboratories by Kernigan and Richie (Yes, the ones who also developed C).
So only due to not-so-nice marketing tricks most computer-illiterates 
nowadays think that Microsoft invented all the things that let computers 
run, but that's completely untrue.
Joep



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