"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
3643521.i7TzCR70gS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/31/06 2:36 PM:
> __/ [ Snit ] on Sunday 31 December 2006 21:25 \__
>
>> "Philip" <me@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>> UEVlh.27995$hI.3249@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/31/06 2:08 PM:
>>
>>> Snit wrote:
>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=763
>>>> -----
>>>> 4. By the end of the year the OpenSolaris
>>>> community will be widely recognised as larger and
>>>> more active than the Linux community -and every
>>>> competing OS developer community except
>>>> Microsoft's will have copied the key ideas
>>>> including its organisational structure, the core
>>>> provisions in the community development license,
>>>> and Solaris specific technologies including ZFS
>>>> and Dtrace.
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmmmm... any thoughts on that?
>>>>
>>>> Of note, also, is number 1:
>>>> -----
>>>> Vista will make billions for Microsoft - driven by
>>>> the warm embrace of those who hated the MacOS X
>>>> interface when Microsoft didn't sell it;
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> I just find that funny. :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sort of like the tabloid psychics... outrageous prediction to draw an
>>> audience
>>
>> Well, the number one prediction is likely to come true... to an extent. I
>> doubt Vista will be a good copy of OS X, no matter how hard MS tried. :)
>
> *sigh*
>
> For the last time, Vista is /NOT/ a copy of Mac OS X. Even the Times says it
> ain't the case. <tongue in cheek />
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8 (short video)
>
> Well, okay, okay... but it must be some kind of coincidence. I /think/...
>
> The Redmond Copying Machine?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
> | "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
> | to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
> | surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
> | bickering, which will proably never end.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
> | he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
> | agreed not to publish his name.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
> | application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
> | iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
> |
> | "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
> | Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
> | grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
> | iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
> |
> | "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
> | creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
> | software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
> `----
>
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
Amazing... just amazing.
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? The tilde in an OS X path does *not* mean "the hard drive only"
? Things which are not the same are not "identical"
? The word "ouch" is not a sure sign of agreement.
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