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Wakeupneo wrote:


..sick of seeing comments like this..

"When you constantly copy off somebody else, you'll always be at least one step behind who you're copying off of."

What exactly has KDE ripped off? What of Windows/OSX/(insert OS of choice here) is actually original and/or unique? Seen shots of Longhorn recently? Remind you of anything?

To say one OS is a RIPOFF of another is just self-delusional. They ALL copy from each other. Always have. Always will.


Really? NeXTStep/Openstep comes to mind as an example of an OS designed ahead of its time so much so that people either loved it or despised it.

OS X has a ways to go to leverage stuff NeXT worked on but never released. Steve has the enviable position of so much forward thinking he can slowly add it.

Other companies don't have this luxury so yes Linux/Windows worlds do copy and often poorly the ideas of NeXT and now Apple.

GNUstep is not NeXTstep though the folks are doing great working reaching many of its abilities. Kind of hard to hire Keith Ohlfs on beer.

NeXTstep allowed one to switch seemlessly between a single office system to a global network. Nothing like working at NeXT and being able to log into any system to get some work you need for say a support call, a client demonstration or group collaboration without having to drop everything and return to your system. This of course has to do with the design of one's network but what Apple can demonstrate, for the Enterprise and more is that its operating system works around the network design instead of designing the network around the operating system.