Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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Yes, it does seem that MS copied the GUI, VMS (or whatever DEC thing they ripped off for NT), etc., etc. FIRST. Wow, that's really great, they copied before OSS copied. That's a real "technological" achievement.
One of the funniest things about OSS to me is precisely this. MS's whole modus operandi (taken from the old IBM playbook) is offer something very standard, not leading edge, and win in the market on things other than "being better." They have NEVER been "better." It was always "good enough," (just barely), and then win based on other things like marketing, predatory pricing, etc.
Along comes Linux and OSS and at least initially the goal is not to make something better, just something as good and free. Just like MS, copy and good enough - except free and not controlled by one company.