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   From: soupedujour2000@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:50:46 -0500, Buddha wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:50:12 +0000 (UTC), Soupe du Jour   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>What vision? They bought DOS from someone else and copied Windows from   
   >>the Mac. Even Excel was really just Lotus 123 with a GUI interface.   
   >   
   > And the Mac ripped off Xerox, and Lotus 1-2-3 ripped off VisiCalc...   
   > yeah,   
   > yeah.  VisiCalc was actually a rip off of paper spreadsheets and a guy   
   > with a calculator (the later part being a rip off of a guy with an   
   > abacus).  Copying things that work is not theft, it is simply the way   
   > the world works.  That is why most of the Linux desktops "ripped off"   
   > Windows.   
      
   Are you always this obtuse? None of what you said proves that Microsoft   
   has vision.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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