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Humorix Stories
- Brief History Of Linux (#15)
Too many hyphens: Traf-O-Data and Micro-soft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen attended an exclusive private school in Seattle.
In 1968, after raising $3,000 from a yard sale,...
- Brief History Of Linux (#16)
Closed source,
opened wallets
In 1976 Bill Gates wrote the famous...
- Brief History Of Linux (#17)
If only Gary had been sober
When Micro-soft moved to Seattle in 1979,
most of its revenue came from
sales of BASIC, a horrible...
- Brief History Of Linux (#17)
Terrible calamity
IBM chose Microsoft's Quick & Dirty Operating System instead of CP/M for
its new line of PCs.
QDOS (along with the abomination known as EDLIN) had...
- Brief History Of Linux (#18)
There are lies, damned lies,
and Microsoft brochures
Even from the very first...
- Brief History Of Linux (#18)
The rise and rise of the Microsoft Empire
The DOS and Windows releases kept coming,
and much to everyone's surprise,
Microsoft became more...
- Brief History Of Linux (#19)
Boy meets operating system
The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if
it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ.
of Helsinki's Fall 1990...
- Brief History Of Linux (#20)
Linux is born
Linus' superhuman programming talent produced,
within a year, a full
operating system that rivaled...
- Brief History Of Linux (#21)
The GNU Project
Meet Richard M.
Stallman, an MIT hacker who would found the GNU Project...
- Brief History Of Linux (#22)
RMS had a horrible, terrible dream set in 2020 in which all of society was
held captive by copyright law.
In particular, everyone's brain waves were
monitored...
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