Somehow I think he is referring to more 'apparant' innovations than back room stuff - such as applications and interfaces - more on the consumer level or what the business customer would see - and I have to say that while MS is not known for honest practices or using it's own ideas - it certainly markets them more and listens more to the customers than the *nix world does (even if MS just tells people what they want to here - it is still marketing).
The average consumer or end user would have absolutely no idea what you are referring to - and they are the ones that fund development - the sad reality is that money has to come from somewhere and consumers and stock holders are normally the providers of those funds. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim C [mailto:jcllings@;tsunamicomm.net] > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town > (October 22) > > > > "Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take > care of," he > > said. "Linux is a cloned operating system - it cloned Unix > and now it wants > > to clone Windows. "It would be nice to get some innovation." > > 1. Notice he said it was expensive but did not deign to > compare prices. > 2. <chuckle> So? ;-) Windows is an Apple clone. > Hmmm... correct me if I am wrong because I am not sure about this but > didn't X-Window exist before the GUI Windows? > > 3. Innovation, huh? I think MPI and PVM (top two high-performance > parallel processing methods for C++) are both originally Unix/Linux > inventions. Anyway, he obviously doesn't know about the > innovations of > Linux. OpenMOSIX (process level clustering that works on any old Unix > process) is a chief example. > > > >
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