"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message
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Jone Doe wrote:
gigantic snip of whining

Windows XP operating system is not like an orange, or a banana to use
one of the more ridiculous examples from an earlier post. It is an
operating system, an intellectual property that is not sold per se,
but rented or leased to be used in one system. If you don't like the
terms of use of the system, don't use it. Get with Al Gore, who
invented the internet after all, and come up with a system that uses
binary codes of zeros and ones to do something useful, copyright it,
and sell it.


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Al Gore?! You mean Al Gore as in the ex-vice president?! I don't *THINK*
so!
The internet started life in 1969 as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects
Agency NETwork) which went live in October of that year (my US history is
a
little hazy, but I believe Richard Nixon was president at the time. Al
Gore
would have been 21 at the time. In '69 he was at Harvard studying
politics).

The WWW, OTOH, was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit working at CERN
(the
European Particle Physics lab in Geneva) in 1980. He invented HTTP and
HTML
in 1990. For more info, see http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html.



You forgot to add that Al was also inspiring Erich Segal to write "Love
Story".

....danny