Microsoft's Pernicious Influence
Ho Yoon
Archer Sully <arc...@elysium.esd.sgi.com> wrote:
>bill...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (William Bush) writes:
>;
>; I dunno. I wasn't impressed. Has Microsoft turned into IBM, acquiring
>; companies and sucking the life and innovation out of them?
>
>What do you think?
>
Sounds like a rhetorical question.
>-- archer
>
>--
>Stop Casting Porosity
>
Matthew Gabriel
>I dunno. I wasn't impressed. Has Microsoft turned into IBM, acquiring
>companies and sucking the life and innovation out of them?
IBM, at least, had the decency to develop its own products. MS
just begs borrows and steals what it can't bully from its competitors.
The last 100% original MS product was GW Basic.
Look at MS-DOS. Used to be Q-Dos until Billy-boy bought it for a
song(not bothering to tell the people who actually worked to write the
damn thing why he wanted it.)
Windows contains more than a few lines of Mac code swapped in the
heady and co-operative days when Apple still regarded MS as another
developer.
Look at Stac technologies. Bill tried to liscence their product
for inclusion into MS DOS. They didn't want to hear it. Then he tried to
buy their company to get his mitts on Stacker. That was a no-go. Then he
just stole it outright.
And lets all give a chuckle at the sad tale of MS MovieTime,
almost entirely Apple owned code, lifted without consent or compensation.
And these are the little foibles that actually manage to make it
to print. I wonder how many other skeletons lie in the closet of the '90s
Robber Barron?
When MS can develop a product, in-house, that is not only unique
but revolutionary, I will wear a t-shirt every day for a year that boasts
the slogan "Bill is Great!" underneath a portrait of the Rich Bastard.
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