Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Sep 2005 19:23 UTC, submitted by Saad
Apple pinned its hopes on a project started in 1987 to provide a next generation version of Mac OS, called Pink. The operating system never shipped, but it prompted Apple's adption of the PowerPC. Read the story here.
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2005-06-29
I don't like your reasoning at all.
At the level Windows copied the Mac a spec would have done just as much.
Linux was modelled after Unix, but that wasn't a large project at that point... It is not, it was not long after that, but that's probably the single most important technical decision that made Linux so popular: It was 386 Unix, and it was here now not when Berkely finishes.
I'm not sure how much .Net copies Java. My understanding is that Java is actually a full, and highly complex, machine that's theoretically buildable. Is .net? Besides, .Net was like a 3-4 year project, and I image Microsoft had a huge mindshare working on it in any possible way: Because it was the technology behind their marketing.
I think communication is the hardest part of a large project. But I don't think having some other closed program to copy helps much. It's not like they can say "hey, this function bar inside this class foo isn't documented, oh let me check what it does in this other program!" Or "hmm, this behaviour is missing from the spec, what should I do if they hit cancel? Let me check what that other program does ... oh, it doesn't have a cancel button."