--- On Thu, 8/6/09, TekBudda <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think MS had ANYTHING to do with the growth on > Linux & OSS. Yes, when you are competing against the big > boy on the block, you will try & imitate some of his > moves. But the only reason MS has any any measure of > success is unfair business practises, purchasing superior > packages & bundling them as their own...only to later > mutate them into disfunctional blobs & eventually > retiring them.
Other have contered this point but better than I. My favorite is: In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html > > If anything MS has Apple, Xerox & others to thank for > their success. As much as I dislike Apple > sometimes I will say that they have provided much innovation > in the tech world...even to the point of inventing markets > & have created standards for other to strive for. > Linux has done this as well & the only way MS can > "Create/innovate/improve" anything is to copy or outright > steal from the competition. > > MS is nothing more than a D grade teacher trying to compete > with with 4.0 GPA's while trying to pas sthem selves off as > Harvard Valedictorians. > > <<SIGH>> Rant over now.... :-) > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
