MS CEO vows to "kill" Google.

[Cryptic]

http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html

[Cleveland Dave]

wow

[DirtyMax]

Must suck to have a little competition after owning the world for over 20 years... :crying

[wikked]

go Google :D

Now they just hired Vint Cerf, the real creator of the internet, *glares at Al Gore*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

[Syclone0044]

Vint Cerf, the real creator of the internet, *glares at Al Gore* Al Gore never claimed to be the creator of the internet. :rolleyes:

http://www.sethf.com/gore/

As a matter of fact, in an ironic twist, Vint Cerf actually said "Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has become the Internet." ... "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

Furthermore, the inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act.

Can this goofy myth die now??? :D

;)

[Rocket Power]

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
That's from your link
Close enough to "I created the internet" to me :rolf

[TransAm12sec]

Must suck to have a little competition after owning the world for over 20 years... :crying


Took the words out of my mouth.

Anyone see the article in Business Week(I think) a few months ago titled "Why Gates is afraid of Google".

[Prince Valiant]

Al Gore never claimed to be the creator of the internet. :rolleyes:
Can this goofy myth die now??? :D

;)Nope, not until he retracts the statement of "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." statement.

See, the problem was Al Gore himself NEVER put that statement into the correct context. Instead he left it very loosely defined, and open to a broad interpetation by the listener. Even reading the whole paragraph, one could not fault the listener for infering that he created the internet, or that it was a vision or something by him, whatever...which it was not.

It becomes a lie not because of commission, but by ommission of the correct context.

Otherwise, I could say "I went to med school"...and I wouldn't be lying. Of course, if you think that I meant I was accepted and completed med school, confered the degree of "medical doctor" and should be accorded as such, well, then that's your problem, not mine, isn't it? :goof

[T-Bag]

Otherwise, I could say "I went to med school"...and I wouldn't be lying. Of course, if you think that I meant I was accepted and completed med school, confered the degree of "medical doctor" and should be accorded as such, well, then that's your problem, not mine, isn't it? :goof

But you told me you were a real doctor?!?! :goof

[Teufelhunden]

http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html
"...and was the CEO of Novell."

Thats enough for me to dislike that guy...Novell (Groupwise).

[Cryptic]

I like Novell... I make good money converting them systems to MS 2003 servers :thumbsup

[Teufelhunden]

S.O.S.

[Prince Valiant]

But you told me you were a real doctor?!?! :goof
You lie! I only tell that to cute chicks :rolf