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Ehm, I don't get his point.
So, yeah, Microsoft stole ideas from other companies. Because, you know, those ideas were *good* ideas. I'd rather see Microsoft make a good, but stolen, OS than a poor but completely original OS.
So, yeah, Microsoft stole ideas from other companies. Because, you know, those ideas were *good* ideas. I'd rather see Microsoft make a good, but stolen, OS than a poor but completely original OS.
Last I checked, it's not stealing unless someone patented it. I can add another (informal) rule to this one - it's not stealing unless *you* patent it. Ironically enough, Microsoft is notorious for breaking the latter rule by patenting stuff that was invented aeons ago. However, I heard hardly anyone complain a while ago when they patented the doubly-linked list (a data structure that has been around from the earliest days of databases, way before Microsoft even existed), yet everyone instantly goes ballistic when they copy a *good* feature of a competing software product.
Things get even better when an [OSX | Linux] fanboy states that "[OSX | Linux] pwns Vista" (no shit, Sherlock) and then backs his position with "Vista will have Feature X, but [OSX | Linux] already has Feature X, hence [OSX | Linux] pwns Vista". Am I the only one who sees a problem with this reasoning?
Things get even better when an [OSX | Linux] fanboy states that "[OSX | Linux] pwns Vista" (no shit, Sherlock) and then backs his position with "Vista will have Feature X, but [OSX | Linux] already has Feature X, hence [OSX | Linux] pwns Vista". Am I the only one who sees a problem with this reasoning?
DOS 6.22
DOS 6.22
The video clip was a humorous handling of what could become tedious nit picking. Fan boy rationalizations made palatable.
For the corporate presentation styles of Apple vs. Microsoft, the same U tube page had a parody, ""if MS (re)designed the I-Pod packaging"".
My understanding of why there was a DOS 6.22. MS and a collaborator with a file compression method, Stacker?, could not agree on a sale price, and that negotiation broke down. Settled in court I think. MS had to do a DOS sans Stacker, so 6.22, and Stacker got millions more, in the days when millions were real money. Nex Gen it's billions or Oblivion.
The back up system in XP WAS / IS a most welcome addition. I don't care the origin. MS OS, any version, can be a volatile house of cards at times, (at any time?), [your mileage may vary].
Recall Norton for Mac --- way back in the primeval Motorola 0_0 era had a back up with similar features, selectivity of individual files, that was not included in later Norton packages, to my limited knowledge.
Wondered where it got to. Glad it resurfaced with XP.
The 'go back' -- potential --- (Adaptec's?) of last bootable or a past preferred booted system / registry config was welcome.
Helped purge Norton's and Roxio from my life, and any system I had a hand in assembling, or resurrecting after OS melt down.
As long as MS pays without strong arming, MS can keep trying 'till they get an OS ''reasonably'' right. Poor Bill Gates karma. Do it till you do it right.
By claiming bought features as immaculate miracles by one of ''The Pirates Of Silicon Valley"", they risk ending up with one of Al Gore's hair shirts.
Gore was an early, enthusiastic supporter of the web and helped vote for funds.
How soon we forget the federal dollars that fund research and development.
Some how the claims of pioneer cheer leader got morphed / turned to the bloated hubris 'myth' of ---inventor --!, when Gore was being groomed as a Presidential candidate. That outrageous bit of spin out of control MARKETING stains his public persona to this day.
4too
DOS 6.22
The video clip was a humorous handling of what could become tedious nit picking. Fan boy rationalizations made palatable.
For the corporate presentation styles of Apple vs. Microsoft, the same U tube page had a parody, ""if MS (re)designed the I-Pod packaging"".
My understanding of why there was a DOS 6.22. MS and a collaborator with a file compression method, Stacker?, could not agree on a sale price, and that negotiation broke down. Settled in court I think. MS had to do a DOS sans Stacker, so 6.22, and Stacker got millions more, in the days when millions were real money. Nex Gen it's billions or Oblivion.
The back up system in XP WAS / IS a most welcome addition. I don't care the origin. MS OS, any version, can be a volatile house of cards at times, (at any time?), [your mileage may vary].
Recall Norton for Mac --- way back in the primeval Motorola 0_0 era had a back up with similar features, selectivity of individual files, that was not included in later Norton packages, to my limited knowledge.
Wondered where it got to. Glad it resurfaced with XP.
The 'go back' -- potential --- (Adaptec's?) of last bootable or a past preferred booted system / registry config was welcome.
Helped purge Norton's and Roxio from my life, and any system I had a hand in assembling, or resurrecting after OS melt down.
As long as MS pays without strong arming, MS can keep trying 'till they get an OS ''reasonably'' right. Poor Bill Gates karma. Do it till you do it right.
By claiming bought features as immaculate miracles by one of ''The Pirates Of Silicon Valley"", they risk ending up with one of Al Gore's hair shirts.
Gore was an early, enthusiastic supporter of the web and helped vote for funds.
How soon we forget the federal dollars that fund research and development.
Some how the claims of pioneer cheer leader got morphed / turned to the bloated hubris 'myth' of ---inventor --!, when Gore was being groomed as a Presidential candidate. That outrageous bit of spin out of control MARKETING stains his public persona to this day.
4too