[aklug] Re: PowerShell

I think you minimized that statement too much . I'm not mad that they sold crappy software to IBM. I'm mad that they sell crappy software. Period. 😝

On Oct 11, 2012, at 13:56, James Tweet <jamestweet@yahoo.com> wrote:

> As I understand it. When IBM first approached MS about making an OS. MS sent IBM to see the UNIX guys. The people making UNIX blew off IBM. So IBM went back to MS.
>
> Since then UNIX people have been pissing and moaning about how MS sold a crappy OS to IBM. Dudes get over it.
>
> Maybe I should setup a website called UnixMoveOn.org.
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 10/10/12, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
>> Subject: [aklug] Re: PowerShell
>> To: "aklug@aklug.org" <aklug@aklug.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 4:38 PM
>> * Jim MacDonald <jim@macdonald.org>
>> [121009 21:14]:
>>
>>> Sorry for the one liners all day, I wasn't in a place
>> where I
>>> could properly respond but I'd like to take a moment to
>> do just
>>> that, From my perspective as a professional Unix admin
>> I'd like to
>>> point out that MS got it's start by purchasing a
>> stripped version
>>> of an OS. Stripped in such a way that they took a basic
>> UNIX like
>>> OS and stripped all the networking capability out of it
>> to make a
>>> PC OS.
>>
>> Hmm! The story I *heard* is that Mr. Gates purchased an OS
>> called
>> QDOS, already fully coded by a Seattle programmer for about
>> 50
>> grand.
>>
>> I don't know where I heard it, but I think it is safe to
>> say
>> that M$ - for good (unlikely) or for bad (more likely) -
>> built (or
>> purchased) an OS made from scratch. Not that there is
>> anothing
>> wrong with that :).
>> --
>> Tim
>> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
>> http://www.akwebsoft.com
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