hi Fellows
the fact is
LINUX is Driven by Technology and not by marketting .....
how did todays workshop go?????
regards
Aditya
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> From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Microsoft "Innovation": What happened to inodes?
> Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 7:45 PM
>
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> >On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> >
> >> Microsoft does a good job of identifying good technology anywhere and
> >> then tweaking it suitably to make it look like it came from them. You
> >> can't argue that.
> >>
> >> There are times when Microsoft picks up good stuff that we didn't even
> >> bother looking it.
> >>
> >> If they can rip good ideas from everyone, we can rip good ideas from
> >> them too, right?
> >
> >Not always. See Microsoft rips ideas that are essentially open and
hence
> >rippable. They then modify, proprietise and copyright the technology
> >making it non-rippable. They have also not come out with anything
> >original.
> >
> >Philip
>
> They don't copyright it, they patent the damn thing (where possible)!
Copy
> rights can be worked around, patents can't.
>
> Devdas Bhagat
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