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Re: Well do you blame them
Bill Gates is, perhaps, a genius at playing poker, requiring huge skills at bluffing. He did not think up the idea of emoticons any more than he thought up Drivespace or the browser or Disk Operating System (the original DOS) or the GUI or Java, each of which he attempted to appropriate as his own. Can you spell T-H-I-E-F? |
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| said by marketex  :Bill Gates is, perhaps, a genius at playing poker, requiring huge skills at bluffing. He did not think up the idea of emoticons any more than he thought up Drivespace or the browser or Disk Operating System (the original DOS) or the GUI or Java, each of which he attempted to appropriate as his own. Can you spell T-H-I-E-F? Come to think of it, he didn't think up the idea of 'computer program' (probably John Von Neumann), or 'subroutine linkage' (David Wheeler), or 'operating system' (the Atlas team, under Tom Kilburn).
What a thief!
And that goes for anyone else who writes software, too! |
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| dave, you do have to admit, MS had brass balls to: 1) pretty much outright "steal" Stacker's runtime disk-compression products' features (*), 2) integrated it into MS-DOS, including a new API that would allow pre-loading the driver, and 3) turn around and sue Stacker, for "theft of trade secrets", for developing an updated version of their product to work with that new API.
(*) Not just features - MS's actual compression implementation infringed on Stacker's LZS (Lempel-Ziv Stacker) patent, IIRC.
There is pretty much nothing new under the sun coming from MS. Every single thing that they "innovated", that I am aware of, was "stolen" from someone else.
MS, the playground bully, got rich by stealing the lunch money from the naive children of rich parent, not by earning the money themselves - to make an analogy. |
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Re: Well do you blame them
No, Dave, some of us "roll our own" subroutines which is why the concept of incorporation of each of the pilfered devices as claims within a patented and pirated program is tantamount to a particular writer one day deciding to patent all the vowels in the alphabet.
It is rather ironic that the least innovative producer of computer software does the most to limit creativity on the parts of other creators of software while protesting to the Attorney General that any fetters on its market position would impede market innovation.
But, then, Bill is a friend of yours, right? Schoolyard kind of buddy? Like "MS is Piracy" suggests?
Bill will eventually get your lunch-money. Check with his former employees for a reference on that point. |
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