[NBLUG/talk] Linus responds to M$

Mark Janes 707mjanes at comcast.net
Sun May 20 14:54:35 PDT 2007


William Tracy wrote:
> *Maybe* the original source of the 640k comment?
>
> http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/1989%20Bill%20Gates%20Talk%20on%20Microsoft.html
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=228031&cid=18475347
>
> If so, he was grossly misquoted. :-P
>
>   

Took a look at the sites. Thanks everyone for pointing out the 'urban
myth' of that particular so-called quote. And thanks for reminding me of
the need to research before I say something. I will be more careful in
the future. I've said enough on this issue. ;)

Mark Janes

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