http://infoworld.com/article/04/10/01/HNgatestalksmuseum_1.html
"Gates undaunted by Linux
By Paul Krill October 01, 2004
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry..."
""Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that," said Gates, eliciting laughter from the audience at the museum. "I'm not saying, 'This computer will go away,' but OS/2 was supposed to kill us."
IBM (Profile, Products, Articles), with 10 times the number of employees as Microsoft, could not stop Windows with OS/2, he noted..."
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