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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Clavicus Vile   
   Re: Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs - 198   
   28 Dec 10 13:24:01   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , Clavicus Vile wrote:   
      
   > "... if [Apple] failed, "IBM would be left to dominate--and destroy--the   
   > industry."   
      
   Only it wasn’t IBM that was the threat, it was Microsoft.   
      
   > "... the Mac was certainly the least threatening computer ever built."   
      
   How times have changed. Nowadays users don’t worry about whether their PCs   
   are “threatening” or not, they worry about them being a pain in the bum.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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