Thanks Martin,
I was unaware of this, but after reading most of it, I think M$s
motive is to just block someone else from doing this. Despite their
patent, should it be awarded, it would easily be broken in my
opinion, such as it is. Mostly, because of the fact that in one form
or another it already exists; just not well done, and not marketed as
such. Anyway, I've wasted enough of my time on this as it is. Even
though my thoughts on the subject are ancient, they probably were not
the first. Maybe Leonardo? (smile)
On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
While we're talking about OSs, I'd like to toss out some ideas I
had back in the Windows 95 days, when it became pretty obvious
that the computer world was about to travel down a very rocky
road. Of course, this was prior to the advent of the Internet as
we know it today.
I wanted someone to implement an OS that came in stages.
One, a very basic one that got the computer up and running, but
did little else. No frills. It would have only the most basic
features. One would boot up using this if you were planning to
focus on text editing. Of course, this was back in the days of the
floppy disk and no hard drives to speak of. And speed didn't even
exist.
You could then add features and capabilities by opening additional
modules if you planned to do other things. Not just one, but several.
The biggest advantage of something like this was cost. The basic
boot up module would have a shareware level cost. As would the
additional ones. I figured that someone must see this as a method
and that it would eventually be done. It wasn't. I still think it
is a great concept. In fact, since I know so little about the Open
Source field, that may be what people are doing. In Linux????
Search me.
Joe Wilkins
Ahem,
Sorry Joe, but you're too late, Microsoft apparently has applied
for a patent on it.
<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007012808444146>
Martin Baxter
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