On Sunday 22 January 2006 05:51, JTD wrote:
Err i thought we were discussing the "success" of M$. But that is right. However till date there have been no copyright or patent infringements by GNU developers or companies. Infact GNU developers' copyrights have been violated several times. And quite a few time in spirit too by taking BSD "extending" and not publishing the extension specs (let alone the code). M$ is the biggest one - the network stack was a BSD rip off. Remove that and kerberos and the ncsa renderer and see what a wonderful piece of *%#@ windows is. Remove CPM code and u have - win??w? - nothing. So much for innovation and value and all the shit that billy baba and his chors keep yacking about.
.NET is probably the biggest rip off.
So if u dont want to look like a computer version of Mandira Bedi dont talk about M$ wonderful achievements in knowledgeable circles.
Hehe :)