[ Thanks to Cory for
this link. ]
“USA TODAY: There seems to be some worry at
Microsoft about Linux and some of these Web-based things like Sim
Desk that have popped up. Houston, Munich, and Beijing have all
been considering using Linux-based products rather than going
through Microsoft. How much of this is a concern?“Bill Gates: Well those are our current
competitors. I mean, it’s no different than in the past people used
[IBM’s operating system] OS/2.“USA TODAY: Nobody used OS/2.
“BG: Are you kidding? I mean, let’s be serious.
That was IBM, a company 15 times our size. Name a bank that didn’t
use OS/2. OS/2 was IBM’s product, and the IBM army marched behind
that product. People always think today’s competition is somehow
different and unique in some way. Let’s be serious. I mean, we’ve
had to bet the company many times on big technological
advances…”