__/ [ Reporter ] on Monday 19 March 2007 17:08 \__
> On Mar 19, 9:02 am, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Personally, I suspect that another reason why the code could never be
>> released would be that all those companies who suspected that their code
>> had been stolen would be able to prove it.
>
> That is very good point. Even though I happen to like a lot of
> Microsoft products, I totally agree with you. Of course the sort of
> lawsuit you are talking about never goes quickly and Microsoft could
> turn the whole thing around and claim they wrote the code first and
> other companies stole if from Microsoft (which in some cases would be
> true). What an infomess !!!
>
> I'm curious why Linux Web Servers managed to dominate Microsoft Web
> Servers so quickly and completely but Linux has not done nearly so
> well on the desktop (comparatively speaking). I think it is because
> Microsoft excels at visual interfaces.
Much of that is inhereited from Apple Macs. :-)
Always find the trail back to the source. A company that popularises a
technology is not necessarily its inventor. Word is not the holy grail of
word processing. Same with Excel, DOS, BASIC, Windows-based UIs and Web
browsers.
http://www.gridter.com/articles/software_cycle.html
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