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by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 01, 2005 at 09:56:19 AM PDT

The post you responded to was uncivil and uncalled for, but really ... Do you work for MS or something? Firefox may not be perfect but it is a lot better than IE which is simply a horrible product. Apache may not be perfect but it is many orders of magnitude better than IIS which is the most insecure product I have ever seen. IBM made no mistake by avoiding patents - the market would be much smaller and they wouldn't have all those consultants running around making them a fortune selling services. If Bill Gates became an investment banker instead of starting MS (and buying DOS - not writing it - so it would have existed either way), there would still be BSD, Linux, whatever Digital Research would have produced, and probably plenty of other alternatives. If he did start MS and didn't illegally use it's monopoly power to destroy competition (which the company has been convicted of on 2 continents), who knows what great software would exist today.

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