On Saturday 21 January 2006 9:41 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:43, JTD wrote:
Sorry to interrupt your cerebrations but businesses survive by natural selection in an environment defined by law. M$ survives by repeatedly violating these laws. That is not natural selection but completely unnatural selection. They would'nt last a few years otherwise and would not be able to donate a floppy let alone pcs.
excuse me but M$ isn't the only one who can play dirty :)
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.
So if u dont want to look like a computer version of Mandira Bedi dont talk about M$ wonderful achievements in knowledgeable circles.