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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:17:28 -0700, peterwn wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 11:43 am, Richard Rasker <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Yup, it's another exciting innovative innovation from The Great
>>> Innovator from Redmond:
>>>
>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20193/53/
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>> --http://www.linetec.nl
>>
>>
>> Seem to remember that Bill Gates was talking about things called
>> 'partitioned datasets' developed by MS a while back. The thing is, Bill
>> was either not thought of or possibly in nappies when they were
>> developed in the early days of 'big iron' hard discs. To cut a long
>> story short they are files containing a small file system of (usually)
>> executables, also known as 'libraries'.
>
> Those who don't understand unix will try to reinvent it.... poorly.
...And then claim ownership of it.
Latha Jishnu: The mouse that bit Microsoft
PATENTLY ABSURD
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| understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were
| invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today. . . I feel certain that some large company will patent some
| obvious thing related to interface, object orientation, algorithm,
| application extension or other crucial technique.”
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