Amen to that. Something I have been telling for so long. In fact I can't remember a single thing M$ came up by themselves. They always bought stole, or equivalent. Even the initial CP-M is not something B.G. did come up with himself. When people, around 2000 (XP) decided to stop writing anything that could be directly used by them it dried out. They got all the wizzes together and came up with a big flop (of which a very simplified run down version we know under Vista). Ergo why they bought GitHub: they are desperate for new material
Just my $.02 From: Chuck Davis [mailto:cjgun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2018 1:20 PM To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys GitHub Do we need to be reminded that IBM had a 32 bit desktop OS a year and a half before MS could muster one up? They finally (20 years late) gave Windows 10 users two huge benefits millions of us have been enjoying for more that 20 years: virtual desktops (a VERY clumsy implementation to be sure) and a usable command prompt window. Even at this time they are using their ridiculous "software patents" to prevent innovation and hold back the advance of the industry. Microsoft is and always has been a poison to technology. Everything they have has been acquired either through purchasing or bankrupting the innovator. There's a lot of stuff on GitHub MS can now steal and market like they invented it...welcome to the Windows World. They've never invented anything but they sure know how to market other people's innovations. The sooner NB liberates itself from GitHub the better off we'll be. If Git is the tool of choice I say let Apache set up it's own Git repositories for Apache projects. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Tim Boudreau <niftin...@gmail.com> wrote: Honestly, when I think of Microsoft, I think of the immeasurable harm they > did to progress in computing. There was going to be a PC on every desktop > regardless. They just ensured that PC ran a horrifically flawed, > vulnerable, broken by design OS. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
