If you could be someone else, who would you choose?

Bill Gates. No, really.

How about being the person that made the final decision not to make Microsofts contract with IBM exclusive to IBM ?

that really sounds new to me???

In the early days of thePC,when IBM was clearly in controll of the PC hardware standard, it hired Microsoft to provide most of the core software for the PC. IBM devoloped the hardware, wrote the BIOS (basic input/output system), and then hired Microsoft to devolop the disk operating (DOS), as well as several other programs and utilities for the PC. Later in what is viewed as the most costly business mistake in history, IBM failed to secure exclusive rights to the DOS they had contracted from Microsoft, either by purchasing it outright or by an exclusive liscense agreement. Instead IBM liscensed it non-exclusively, which allowed Microsoft to sell the same MS-DOS code to any other company that was interested. In retrospect , that single contractual error made Microsoft into the dominant software company it is today, and subsequently caused IBM to lose controll over the very PC standard they had created.

today is 3/11 and I love 311.

I meant UNFLUX

You just became my new best friend

There is no better band on earth, in my never to be humble opinion.
They are everything music should be: fun, combining styles, original, and
just plain good music.

Have you heard their remake of The Cure's "Love Song?" It's phenominal.

I'm stunned by this piece of information dM....

Stick to the way you rock it and know that
You'll cope with that
Not gonna let it sit til I say
How dope was that
Keep you head pumping til you get in the zone
Not giving up not going home

Apology here..

I meant UNFLUX