Ok can we PLEASE be perfectly honest here? You had no reason to write this up other than to try and make Microsoft look bad. You can sit around and say you were trying to ?point out interesting historical footnotes? people all you want, but you?re just an MS and you continue to just talk about how bad Microsoft is vs. Novell and UNIX. It?s obvious what you?re intent was. Also the fact that you called this an ?argument? further shows you know first hand what your intent was.
You want to sit around and talk over and over again about how Microsoft ?stole? other people?s ideas. Well lets break it down very simple. We?ll use cars as an example. Do you realize that a good number of people consider the Model A as the first car ever produced. In fact it was not the first ?car? ever built, but it was the first car built for the masses, not just the wealthy, that could afford it. Windows was designed for the masses. It wasn?t built for the computer geek. It was given a GUI to make ease of use for the general computer fearing public. Does everyone consider Ford a rip-off and scream ?thief? every time you see one of their cars and drudge up history? No, because what they did was INNOVATE and bring a product to the masses. Regardless if they were the first ones to build a car, they took that knowledge, applied it to their own design, and delivered it to the people. The other companies failed to do that. Ford also didn?t create the Fuel Injection System or the Electronic system that is equipped in their cars. Other people created these great ideas, but Ford has incorporated them into their cars. Ford is still considered an innovator though because they brought this wonderful technology to the masses. Does it matter if it was developed by another person/company?
I think the point I?m trying to make here is the fact that all companies uses ideas and features that other companies originally created. Just because Novell created the ?Forest and Tree? structure, Microsoft has utilized that ideology in their product to create something that is easier to use for the end user. In the end we don?t call all these companies thieves and sit around all day trying to point it out. It is how they box that solution and make it easier to use and better flowing with their product that makes it innovative.
PaintShopPro is an obvious rip-off of Photoshop, but you don?t hear people complaining about it? Why not? Because they bring an affordable package to the masses that has the feature sets of a $600 product, but at a $100 price. People don?t care though because it?s not ?big bad Microsoft?. As long as Microsoft and Bill Gates makes billions of dollars, there are going to be people like you who will continue to try and find a way to belittle them and make them look bad. Really, does this all hurt you? For someone who works ?17 hours and can?t catch a break?, why in the world are you wasting your time to write up a slander piece on Microsoft?
FYI Linux didn't used to have a user interface, now they do because they are trying to marketing their product against Microsoft to acquire some shares of the desktop market. So in other words, Linux is essentially is stealing the whole Microsoft design and appeal. Now you have Linux based distros like ?Lindows? and others that are complete and utter rip-offs of Microsoft GUI?s (not to mention the fact the name?) I don?t hear Linux people ranting and raving about that? No I think they have other excuses and better things to rant about
If you REALLY wanted to inform people about Xenix, you all you to do is say something simple like this, instead of your obvious attempt to start something
In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the name Xenix. Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed the software to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then provided a finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other customers.
SCO introduced its first version of Xenix named SCO Xenix System V for the Intel 8086 and 8088 in 1983. Today SCO Xenix is one of the more commonly used and found versions of Xenix.
Wow that was so hard...
I made fun of your spelling because you are trying to apply some sort of intelligence on the subject, yet you can?t spell simple 5th grade words, it?s atrocious. In this latest ?quick to the press? post you had over 17 misspelled words. Simple words my 6 year old can spell. It?s just pathetic to see someone try and hold an intelligent ?argument? as you call it, when they can?t spell ?statis, automaticly, varing, rippoff, anywere, aperations, realy, opisite, instulting? I mean come on. If you have the time to write 6 paragraphs of text?..
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