Apology accepted. The rest of the Kingdom wasn't really at fault, imho.
"Our role in the market is to continue to be involved in UNIX. We made
a lot of money on UNIX which is more than you can say for a lot of
companies in the UNIX market. [Laughter.]"
The author? William H. Gates III. (Source:
http://doc.weblogs.com/2000/11/01)
Bill Gate's comments on NT: "In a weak sense, it [NT] is a form of
UNIX."
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/industry&tech/uexpo.asp
link presernved on
http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/stories/2003/01/18/
twikiBlogArchive200203.html
On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:01 PM, adam buckland wrote:
> OK, OK....
>
>
> On behalf of the UK can I apologise for Nick McGrath. Even when I was
> at MS and working on OS's I wouldn't have spouted such a load of crap
> mainly because we stole a number of ideas from *nix (allegedly!).
>
> Adam.
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