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Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)Posted Apr 25, 2003 22:28 UTC (Fri) by emkey (guest, #144)In reply to: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) by dwheeler Parent article: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com) 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...
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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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