RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

>Microsoft is the ultimate successful model of
>pay-for-software. Innovation is anathema to them. GPL is the
>opposite of "monopoly" because it "monopoly" means control
>of a market. M$ wants to control the market.

Alan,

Was Visual Basic innovative?  What about the Win32 api, unicode built into
the OS, COM as a way for applications to expose their interfaces, the
ability to automate excel and word using COM.  Network neighborhood, long
file names, MSDN, FrontPage as a way for end users to build web pages.  And
now there is .NET and XML as a native data source/sink.

Microsoft succeeds because it reinvests its profits and continually improves
its products.

JT has made a good point here.  What innovation has come out of the open
source movement? Linux is a copy of Unix, Java was started by SUN and the
browser was created by a for profit company ( and tightly integrated with
the PC OS, as it should be, by MS ).

Steve