Apple vs. Microsoft: Top 20 Stolen OS Ideas
Linked by snydeq on Mon 12th Oct 2009 15:24 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces InfoWorld's John Rizzo chronicles the 20 most significant ideas and features Microsoft and Apple have stolen from each other in the lead up to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 'Some features were stolen so long ago that they've become part of the computing landscape, and it's difficult to remember who invented what.' Windows 7's Task Bar and Aero Peek come to mind as clear appropriations of Mac OS X's Dock and Expose. Apple's cloning of the Windows address bar in 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the path bar is another obvious 'inspiration.' But the borrowing goes deeper, Rizzo writes, providing a screenshot tour of Microsoft's biggest grabs from Mac OS X and Apple's most significant appropriations of Windows OS ideas and functionality.
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RE[3]: I'd like to know...
by strcpy on Mon 12th Oct 2009 19:54 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: I'd like to know..."
strcpy
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2009-05-20

Sure.

I used the same words as the parent article.

Even put those in quotation marks.

I think every gets the context; no stealing in the legal sense here, nor in the parent article.

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RE[4]: I'd like to know...
by David on Mon 12th Oct 2009 20:01 in reply to "RE[3]: I'd like to know..."
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1997-10-01

No worries. I absolutely understood that you were using that word with a wink. Authors and comedians and even inventors are always talking about stealing ideas from other people, and they use it in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I'd like to see the moral failing aspect of copying good ideas from other people to be reduced.

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