Nope, Mr. Gates paid Apple to keep Apple afloat and a competitor. Doesn't look like forking out that money did any good, did it? At 11:59 AM 9/14/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >Add voice and Braille, some games and other highly used software to gnome, >and we will have the ultimate competitor to MS. On MS, didn't I hear a >couple of years ago that Mr. Gates bought into Apple to hedge his bets? > > >--- >Ross Eadie >Voice: (204) 339-5287 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Jason Symes kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat can cause kids The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! Just trying to plug away!