Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Oct 2005 20:26 UTC
Microsoft The world's richest man talks about developing new drugs to combat AIDS, open-source software and why Microsoft's still cool after all these years. Gates: "We encourage everyone to develop in our environment. Free software's nothing new... There was an early browser, an early mail program. But as times moved on, it's been the commercial programs that get the support, get the richness."
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Sphinx
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2005-07-09

You are confusing shareware and open source, not the same at all.

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raver31 Member since:
2005-07-06

shareware was from the late eighties, however, in the fifties and sixties and most of the seventies, all software used to be open sourced.
Bill Gates used open sourced software at the start too, when he was taking and giving code in his computer club.

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