So, where is/are the competition/confrontations in software?

[JeffM]

Interesting image
http://mrpogson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/software_wars.png
attached to a Robert Pogson blog.
http://mrpogson.com/2011/07/22/software-wars/
:[...]The graphic does not show that M$ is declining in many
areas[...]

It does, however have several arrows that are deflected back,
showing rejected/repulsed initiatives.

The really strong stuff (open browsers, Skype) is drawn as
breastworks.

:Thanks to MrTomLinux for his work to make this image.
http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2011/07/software-wars-are-updated-now-in-git.html

http://mrpogson.com/2011/07/22/software-wars/#comment-50529
#Ray
#this map is missing a few battles

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JeffM wrote:

> Interesting image
> http://mrpogson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/software_wars.png

Very interesting map of the software world.

[Homer]

Verily I say unto thee that JeffM spake thusly:
> Interesting image
> http://mrpogson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/software_wars.png
[...]

> #this map is missing a few battles

The battle between Oracle and Google, for example.

Then there's the battle between Microsoft and tens of thousands of other
companies, organisations and people over the past 36 years, from Gary
Kildall, Altair, DR-DOS, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, and Stac Electronics, right up
to the present day with i4i, Barnes & Noble, Salesforce, foxconn,
inventec and Motorola.

One little diagram ain't gonna cut it, I'm afraid. You'd need something
the size of the Doomsday Book.

Here's a start:

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20010110163800/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2385140,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_antitrust_case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#Criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in#Microsoft
http://grokdoc.net/index.php?title=Comes_v._Microsoft_Exhibits
http://news.softpedia.com/news/One-Laptop-Per-Child-Sabotaged-by-Microsoft-and-Intel-71941.shtml
http://olpc.tv/2007/05/21/60-minutes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122332198757908625.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300590_software22.html
http://slated.org/microsoft_kills_baby
http://techrights.org/2009/01/10/edgi-continued-dumping-vs-gnu
http://techrights.org/microsoft-critique-resources
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php?title=Comes_vs_Microsoft
http://thepopulist.wordpress.com/2003/10/10/the-trials-of-microsoft
http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aAKluP7yIwJY
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9033701/Microsoft_admits_Swedish_employee_promised_incentives_for_Open_XML_support
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/6124/linux-wins-nigerian-school-desktops-back-from-microsoft
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090619161307529
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2007021720190018
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/871631
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f0200/0233.htm#N_1_
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/ms_exhibits.htm
http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/M26.pdf
http://www.msversus.org
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14871/2
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/16/xbox_scratched_discs_updated
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1036588/bill-gates-lends-cash-to-buy-newspapers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/02/01/unsealed_caldera_files_detail_ms
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states
http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm
http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company_part2.htm
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_findings.htm
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html

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[JeffM]

>JeffM wrote:
>>#this map is missing a few battles
>>

Homer wrote:
>[...]Gary Kildall, Altair, DR-DOS, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, and Stac Electronics,
>
Yup. Most folks' view of software/computing history is SO short.

...and it really is too bad that "Gary went flying";
it would have been interesting to see how that played out.