Fwd: Linux executive accuses Microsoft

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Author: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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Subject: Fwd: Linux executive accuses Microsoft
Quoting Kevin Brown <>:

> >
> > "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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