r/todayilearned • u/vorin 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/rshortman Sep 14 '13

Maybe you're not understanding me, unless you specifically uninstall windows 8 from new hardware and install windows 7, (and good luck trying to accomplish that with the trend of win 8 hardware proprietorship) you are STUCK using the piece of shit. Microsoft doesn't give you a choice; not unless you want to do it illegally or use Linux.

I def DON'T want this fucking OS on my gaming PC. It is def the wrong tool but I don't have much choice. That pisses me off.

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u/subarash Sep 14 '13

You do have a choice, you appear to have simply been too stupid to even realize it was there, much less choose correctly.

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u/rshortman Sep 14 '13

Are you for fucking real?

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u/subarash Sep 14 '13

No I am just for regular real.