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Dear Mr Ballmer,


>Linux is nothing but an entire ripoff of Unix/minux,
>down to the core. Totally modeled after Unix/Minix.
>Some say with code in hand in fact. I think that is a
>possibility but I don't know that for sure, but
>either way, they took Unix and cloned it for the most
>part and then added features to try and keep up with
>Microsoft.

Actually, computer science isn't so much about revolution, but evolution. Yes, Linux looks a little bit like Unix and does use a microkernal like Minix. Anyone who's seen the original (pre or post Sys V) Unix source code (I had access to it and helped port it to various platforms) would know that Unix hat a limited shelf life, due to the lack of layering in the architecture. Unix microkernals were talked about way back in the 80's. Torvalds merely took took the talk and walked the walk: he wrote a microkernal baed Unix version.

So, microkernals, such as CHorus, Minix, Mach, etc. were innovative and marked the leading edge, which Apple and Linux took further.

Microsoft's mishmash of proprietary code and systems is nothing new; proprietary, mon-portable code and systems have been around since the 40's. You might say that Microsfot 'stole' this concept from IBM and all the computing companies that preceded it.

As for your main FUD, it's getting old. Steve, since you are funding the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, whos' Ken Brown made the chief claim that Linux stole code from Minix, and which claim was subsequently debunked by Andrew Tanenbaum, who wrote Minix, I would expect such FUD.


>But Microsoft has made stellar products out of ok
>ones. Take SQL sever. When they aquired that, it was
>nothing near the world class and ubiquitous SQL
>Server product it is today. SQL 2005 is brilliant and

You are kidding, right? I've consulted with 70 or 80 of the Fortune 500, and not one of them is using SQL Server for ANY of their core enterprise systems. Jeez...SQL Server ain't Oracle or DB2, hell it ain't even Informix.


>products now. It's the non flashy things that MS
>innovates, core technologies like ActiveX and COM >that may be complex but are very very powerful and >
>are to

Jeez, you're kidding again, right? ActiveX, OLE, COM, DCOM, COM++ are proprietary, single platform pieces of garbage. I've developed using these technologies...try doing a remote (RPC) call across a network using ActiveX/DCOM. Try implementing client code using ActiveX on a desktop outside the firewall. Try doing any of this on a non-Microsoft platform? Try calling Microsoft code from a non-microsoft system, or vice versa! Wow, what an idjit!


>this day powering the worlds leading Office software system.

>MSO 2007 is revolutionary and innovation at it's
>best. They took the best Office Suite in the world, >and turned it into something even greater that has >changed the face of Office apps forever.

MSO 2007 stinks. MSO 2007 is the same old same old packaged in a new UI paradigm, that M$ needed to improve it's revenue stream by forcing people too ignorant to get off of M$ platforms to re-buy the software, replacing their perfectly good, working copies of Office.

>There are close to one billion people that disagree
>with your tasteless comments.

Yeah, and they all eat lunch at Mickey D's. Doesn't make McDonalds great or innovative cuisine, just an opiate for the masses. Same as M$. Mediocre, and in the long run, harmful, products for the masses.

Steve, Go back to threatening people with your stable of 'software patents'. God, what a joke.

Posted by: chinese.bookie   Posted on: 05/29/08  (Edited: 05/29/2008 @ 05:29) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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