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[News] Microsoft Copies Google's Open Source Software, Makes Its Own Proprietary

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Copies Google's Open Source Software, Makes Its Own Proprietary
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:57:52 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft wriggles on Volta concerns

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| Early interest in the tech preview also generated some initial criticism. A 
| common complaint: Volta is a clone of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The GWT 
| is an open-source Java development framework that compiles Java source code 
| into JavaScript.   
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/07/volta_technology_preview/


Yesterday:

The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java

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| Microsoft was quick to deliver such extensions, presenting a design preview 
| the following May. A press release emphasized how Java integrates with 
| ActiveX, Windows-specific components. "Developers will be able to write Java 
| applets that work with ActiveX Controls... developers can also use Java to 
| create ActiveX Controls that work with ActiveX Controls written in other 
| programming languages. All of these will run seamlessly on the Java reference 
| implementation in Windows," Microsoft said.      
| 
| [...]
| 
| Perhaps the greater surprise, twelve years later, is that Java's little 
| brother JavaScript, the scripting language aimed at non-programmers, has 
| bested Java in browser applications, and as adopted by Adobe in Flash, is 
| also giving Microsoft tough competition everywhere from rich internet 
| applications to mobile devices.    
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/07/microsoft_java_sun_infamy/


Microsoft patents BlueJ

,----[ Gist ]
| * Feature copying
| * Fear of Microsoft
| * Microsoft's Patent Claim
| * Ethics
| ...
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http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21


NT influenced by Unix

,----[ Quote ]
| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html


The Redmond Copying Machine?

,----[ Quote ]
| "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."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8

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