Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987
1980s
"Inside Track", PC Magazine (22 October 1996)
1980s & 1990s
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987
1980s
Ingo Molnar Linux kernel programmer
From a message http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.0/0746.html to the Linux Kernel mailing list in 1999.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944) Dutch computer scientist
In a Usenet message, 3 Feb 1992.
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Internet meme commonly attributed to Stallman made by an unknown source.
Misattributed
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
[linux.conf.au conference, http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/torvalds-pans-apples-os-x/2008/02/05/1202090393959.html, 2008-02-05]
2000s, 2008
Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944) Dutch computer scientist
In a Usenet message, 29 Jan 1992.
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate
“You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.”
David Pogue (1963) Technology writer, journalist and commentator
" Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pogue-email.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin," The New York Times, March 13, 2008.
“Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole… He just has a different OS.”
Guy Kawasaki (1954) American businessman and author