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When the good ol [arguments] get involved.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 12, 2005 05:02 PM

"Remember how Honeywell, IBM and Digital dominated the computer industry with these old Unix and Vax systems? "

Primarily workstations and mainframes.

"Then here comes young wippersnappers Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. "

Primarily personal computers.

"New leaders in the field. Defining where an entire industry would be lead."

History as usual is much more complicated than can be contained in a soundbite.

"The same thing is happening all over again, but this time with OSS."

Not quite.

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