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To: Congressman Billybob

I like this article. It told me something important I didn't know - that Franklin's invention of creators' rights was the key to America's idea prosperity.

But what did Bill Gates invent? I thought he took Steve Jobs' "user-friendly" concept of computer operating systems and ran with it.


45 posted on 12/09/2005 6:06:29 AM PST by RoadTest (As teens we know everything; by 90, if we're wise, we'll know nothing.)
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To: RoadTest
"But what did Bill Gates invent? I thought he took Steve Jobs' "user-friendly" concept of computer operating systems and ran with it."

Oh you mean that "User-friendly" concept Jobs pirated from Xerox?

85 posted on 12/09/2005 1:11:49 PM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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