Re: require Gates to download and use Linux for the next 5 years

["Marty Leisner" <leisner@rochester.rr.com>]

There was an interview with Gates in Forbes ("Gates unplugged")

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/99/1213/6414076a.htm

On whether he has ever programmed in Linux, the freebie operating
system: "Well, Linux is just a form of Unix, and I certainly did a lot of
programming in Unix. The fact that the free-software community can
take that 25-year-old thing and say, 'Okay, here it is'--there's nothing
phenomenal about that. And so, no, I've never actually used it on a
machine. I've certainly had demos with it, but it's not anything I've
used." 


Amazing he can call Linux "a 25-year-old-thing".