You're right. But it's common practice in the software business. Just look at Oracle buying Sun.
MS being like that goes back to the early days. Nothing new really. I recommend you guys watch the movie 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'. It's the story of the early PC/Apple days. They really pulled a fast one on Apple. Should be available at your 'local movie store' ;) Some products turned out pretty good though: - Active Directory - Visio That's the only ones I wish for open equivalent. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Leslie Satenstein < [email protected]> wrote: > I have no facts, just conjectures. From my 25 plus years with Microsoft, I > have yet to see them come out with an original product, or a product that > they did not purchase from another developer company. That includes the > initial releases of MS Office. Ideas there were taken from an OS2 > wordprocessor. > > Microsoft paid Novell off as a sellout, but it was not really a sellout. I > sincerely believe that Novell had networking patents that Microsoft > violated,and it was cheaper for MS to make a deal with Novell, then to go to > court. > > We will never know, will we? > > Leslie > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Jean-Francois Theroux <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jean-Francois Theroux<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Bah Bigotry ? nope just a firm believer in free software and an OS >>> >> that I dont have to reinstall every 6 months. Its good to laugh at >>> >> Microsoft, god knows I put up with enough anti Linux jokes at work! >>> >> they just dont learn. >>> >> >>> >> Anyhow...Windows7 ? Its built on top of Vista, the hardware >>> >> requirements are still the same. >>> > >>> > Not quite. You can't run Vista on netbooks. On the other hand, you can >>> run >>> > Win7 on most netbooks available today. >>> > >>> >>> Not quite. There are 2 versions of Win7, a stripped down version for >>> netbooks. >>> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions >> >> Doesn't seem to be a netbook specific version. Anyhow, a friend of mine >> who manages Windows machines for a living, has a lowend MSI netbook running >> one of those versions smoothly. I guess I'll never know though, as I have no >> intention of getting win7. >> >> The only OS that's more confusing with a higher number of different >> versions (or derivatives) is Ubuntu ;) >> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >> Leslie if you really absolutely need to run a Windows OS then by all >>> >> means Windows7 will be ok. And I dont think Novell produced >>> >> Windows7 ?? They probably had their input into making it more >>> >> compatible with Linux. >>> > >>> > Leslie, please back this up with facts. >>> > >>> >> >>> >> But really copying Ubuntu release parties?, what will they do after >>> >> that? have SP1, SP2 Release parties?, yay lots of fun! >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Leslie >>> >> Satenstein<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> > concepts wrote: >>> >> >> «I hope those are tempered Windows or else a Ubuntu impact could >>> make >>> >> >> them shatter! >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Would be interesting perhaps to host one of those and be like "See, >>> >> >> this >>> >> >> is Windows 7, and now let's put our Ubuntu installation CD...."» >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Would that make it a *WINDEX* party? >>> >> >> André. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> > I realize that we all have a leaning towards Linux, but we should >>> not >>> >> > become Linux Bigots. Microsoft is foremost a for profit company, and >>> as >>> >> > such, will use warfare to destroy the competition. I have not seen >>> or >>> >> > tried windows7, but in fact, it may be a very good product. I >>> believe it >>> >> > was produced by Novell for Microsoft, and uses much of the knowledge >>> >> > gained from SUSE to be re-implemented in W7. >>> >> > >>> >> > Microsoft Office is a very good product, and it is a market leader. >>> >> > Thus, to benefit from MSOffice, you may need to be under a Windows >>> >> > environment. If MSOffice loses the exclusivity, through being >>> forced to >>> >> > support ODF, then the door is open to other software products that >>> could >>> >> > do better then just imitating MS word, Excel, etc. That may open the >>> >> > doors a lot wider for Linux. >>> >> > >>> >> > If windows7 is good, it will probably become my desktop machine. It >>> all >>> >> > depends on costs and my business needs. >>> >> > >>> >> > Right now, the word on the net is that UBUNTU is what MS fears the >>> >> > most. That is why the UBUNTU announcement release date was chosen >>> by MS >>> >> > to conflict and reduce the UBUNTU impact. (Reporters cant be in two >>> >> > places at once). You can be sure that even the hours of the release >>> >> > parties (and refreshments) will conflict. >>> >> > >>> >> > My two cents. >>> >> > >>> >> > Leslie >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>> >> > mlug mailing list >>> >> > [email protected] >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> >> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! >>> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> mlug mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> >>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > :(){ :|:& };: >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > mlug mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > >>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mlug mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :(){ :|:& };: >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> >> > > > -- > ------------------- > Regards > > Leslie Satenstein > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- :(){ :|:& };:
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