On 23 May 2004 at 9:49, Philip Aker wrote: > On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 20:20 America/Vancouver, Mark D Lew > wrote: > > > On May 22, 2004, at 1:35 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >> But, in case you want to defend your stance on Longhorn and OS X, > >> do tell exactly which features of Longhorn (i.e., features that > >> were absent in any previous version of Windows) are ripped off from > >> OS X. > > >> I'm all ears. > > > Weren't we talking about Mac OS X's "Expos�" feature here not long > > ago? Isn't that one of the things coming in Longhorn which doesn't > > currently exist in Windows? > > > As I understand it, the main features which Longhorn is going to add > > which were not in previous versions of Windows but are in Mac OS X > > -- I assume that's what's meant by "ripped off" -- primarily have to > > do with the graphic interface. > > Other concepts stemming from MacOS X having BSD underpinnings have > been ripped off too. Like standard unix shell commands and scripting > language implementations.
Pardon me, but NT was designed form the ground up with POSIX compatibility, which was a UNIX-derived standard in the first place. And saying that because NT incorporates some aspects of UNIXen makes it a rip-off of OS X is intellectual dishonesty of the worst sort. OS X is a rip-off of BSD, if nothing else. > Watch what happens on the "Zero Link" and distributed computing > fronts. MacOS X uses these features in the developer tools right now > and I suspect they will start to migrate to regular applications > starting in MacOS X "Tiger" edition. Meaning that Longhorn users can > expect something similar around 2010. Naturally, you ignore all the things Windows users have had for a long time which Mac users only finally got in OS X. I'm not intersted in educating you, since you're clearly a Mac partisan interested only in demonstrating the superiority of your chosen platform. Me, well, I recognize that Windows has good points and bad points -- it's not a religion for me. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
