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Re: [News] Microsoft's Co-founder "Leaves Microsoft Software Behind" After Quitting

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____/ alt on Thursday 10 July 2008 09:24 : \____

> On 2008-07-03, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Guinness World Records has validated Mozilla's attempt to set a record for
>>| the number of software downloads in a 24 hour period. The official count of
>>| Firefox 3 downloads was 8,002,530.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19195/1054/
>>
>> Gates openly admitted some years ago that he downloaded and tried Firefox.
> 
> One could easily rewrite that sentence to read: "Gates openly admitted some
> years ago that he once tried pot". The way that sentence reads just reeks
> of some sort of shame.

Not necessarily. Could say: "Ballmer openly admitted some years ago that he
did /try/ deodorant."

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