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AP/Contra Costa Times: Gates Embraces Netscape, Linux

[ Thanks to hey
for this link. ]

“It’s not often that Bill Gates is associated with the free
Linux computer operating system, Netscape’s Web browser or
royalty-free software, but on Wednesday he embraced all three.

“Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., sat through a computer
demonstration running on Linux–a competitor to Microsoft’s
Windows–and the Netscape browser, a rival product that all but
disappeared because of giveaways of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
browser…”

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