On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Geoff Beasley <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a reality that Linux (and it's programmers) have been at the forefront > of computer software design and implementation; and that will continue. > > Microsoft have never been. this isn't actually true. microsoft research has done some pretty innovative stuff. the original NT kernel group headed by dave cutler (who used to work at dec and basically bought a decent chunk of the VMS team with him) did some quite creative things with kernel design. and even the justifiably maligned IE did bring a few features to web browsers that are now standard. even though CORBA attempted to do "object management" before MS, its design never really took off, whereas MS's "DOM" model has been quite successful when viewed through certain lenses. what is true is that microsoft innovations rarely spread outside of microsoft. not never, just rarely. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
