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Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: <mike.spooner_at_hil.hftrust.com>
Date: 2000/03/08
Message-ID: <8a60no$q6f$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1

> > Ffej wrote:
 

> > And lets all remember that Xerox stole the icon concept from work
 done
> > by Egyptians thousands of years ago (who, in turn, probably got it
> > from cave paintings). The sad, brutal truth is that given how many
> > people have lived before us, the concept of an "original ideal"
 today
> > is almost absurd. Everything any culture on the planet has today is
> > ALL built on somebody else's work.

Yeah, but not everyone tries to pass off the ideas of others as their own - only Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc, etc, etc, etc. :-(

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