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Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)Posted Apr 25, 2003 16:45 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)Parent article: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) See http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation. for more about the history of software innovation. A company that doesn't innovate isn't by definition unethical, but it's wrong to claim that you're an innovator if you aren't. There seems to be very little credible evidence even slightly in Mr. Ballmer's favor. Ballmer doesn't even cite one example in his interview. Yes, their operating system was built later than Unix, but that doesn't mean it's an innovator; indeed, Windows and Office are rebuilds of pre-existing concepts. I'd be curious to hear of examples clearly demonstrating that Microsoft's products have been more innovative than their competitors.
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Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) Posted Apr 25, 2003 22:28 UTC (Fri) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] In the 80's Microsoft's idea of innovation was to vaporware to death any company that announced and interesting and innovative product. Microsoft seldom if ever delivered on their promises. As others have noted, towards the end of the 80's their idea of innovation shifted to riping off Apple.On a related note, how old is VMS? Because NT is pretty much an ugly mishmash of DOS/Windows/VMS. None of which is much less then twenty years old...
Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) Posted Apr 26, 2003 3:24 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] On a related note, how old is VMS?25 years old according to this VMS history page: http://www.levitte.org/~ava/vms_hist.htmlx Yeah, what about it Steve? Perhaps MSFT denies that NT is largely based on VMS (and OS/2, with bits of DOS thrown in).
Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) Posted May 3, 2003 8:40 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (guest, #5474) [Link] In around 1993, this was almost the subject of legal action by DEC. It was resolved by a favourable partnership agreement worth a great deal of money for DEC.Rich.
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