Victor Bazarov wrote:

BobR wrote:

red floyd <no.spam@here.dude> wrote in message
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virtualadepts@gmail.com wrote:

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++.

What????? You mean Bill Gates didn't create it? But I thought
Bill Gates invented everything about computers!

BIG difference between 'invention' and 'theft' (remember what he
paid Xerox for windows? That's 'theft' in my book. <G>).

I thought it was charity. Whatever Xerox got out of it, they must
have liked [then], right?

As I recall, it was Apple that was accused of stealing PARC's design,
not Microsoft.

Puppet_Sock <puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote in message...

On Apr 1, 3:07 pm, "BobR" <removeBadB...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

red floyd <no.s...@here.dude> wrote in message...

virtualade...@gmail.com wrote:

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++.

What????? You mean Bill Gates didn't create it? But I thought
Bill Gates invented everything about computers!

BIG difference between 'invention' and 'theft' (remember what he
paid

Xerox

for windows? That's 'theft' in my book. <G>).

Theft? By Gates or by Xerox?
Socks

Xerox got screwed.

Sort of like:
You run a cabinet business. Someone in your company designed a
birdhouse. You don't really care about the birdhouse, so you sell it
to Bill for $2.00. He slaps a coat of paint on the birdhouse, walks
across the street and sells it for $100,000.00!
Sure, it's all legal. But if you knew the guy across the street was
looking for a birdhouse, would you have sold it to Bill for $2.00?
(the guy across the street was 'Big Blue', more or less. <G>)