Fwd: Linux executive accuses Microsoft

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:24:34 +0000

Quoting Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net>:

> > 
> > "If someone thinks we're not after Lotus and after WordPerfect and after
> Borland, they are confused. My job is to get a fair share of the software
> applications market, and to me that's 100 percent."
> > 
> >                 Mike Maples, Senior VP for Applications for Microsoft, Nov.
> 1991
> > 
> > That statement still applies and not just to applications. To bring it up
> to date just add the words Open Source and Linux.
> 
> You wouldn't happen to know the source where this quote can be found would
> you?

The quote came originaly from a PC Magazine article. I found it in Andrew 
Schulman's Unauthorized Windows.

Popping the first sentance into Google turned up some sites as well. 
Includinging this one http://128.253.200.17/eric/ms.qt.html which has some 
juicy quotes such as:

"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant 
number of users want fixed. . . . If you really think there's a bug you should 
report a bug. Maybe you're not using it properly. Have you ever considered 
that?"
-Bill Gates (quoted in an interview with the German magazine Focus)

Dennis Kibbe

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