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Sun Apr 15 18:14:54 PDT 2007


about Bill...  But I can't find the quote either.
Jack
-- 
English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert P. Thille</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:list-nblug-talk at rangat.org">list-nblug-talk at rangat.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On May 16, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Tim Preston wrote:<br><br>&gt; Without offering praise to the person let me say, &quot;this is the person<br>&gt; who has made millions, nay billions by wordsmithing around many<br>&gt; rules or
<br>&gt; patents until he had enough money and power to quiet the<br>&gt; complaints...&quot;<br><br>I don&#39;t understand.&nbsp;&nbsp;Which &quot;the person&quot; are you talking about?&nbsp;&nbsp;I<br>couldn&#39;t find your quoted text anywhere, and it&#39;s not clear to me
<br>about whom you are speaking.&nbsp;&nbsp;I certainly don&#39;t think Linus has made<br>billions by wordsmithing, and the article doesn&#39;t even mention Bill<br>G., who is the only person I can see where the quote applies.<br><br>
Robert<br></blockquote></div><br>From context and title, I would asume it to be something Linus has said about Bill...&nbsp; But I can&#39;t find the quote either.<br>Jack<br>-- <br>English doesn&#39;t borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.

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