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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 04:42:48 pm

Title: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source
Post by: Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 04:42:48 pm
Link to Article (http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39122181,00.htm)

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has criticised the lack of innovation in open source software and accused the community of merely trying to "clone" commercial software.


Can anyone list a single (successful) software innovation by Microsoft?

Since I said successful not mentioning Microsoft Bob.
Title: Re: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source
Post by: Iceman on July 17, 2004, 06:42:07 pm
Innovation? no. First to market and make available.....?
Title: Re: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source
Post by: Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 09:36:11 pm
Quote from: Iceman on July 17, 2004, 06:42:07 pm
Innovation? no. First to market and make available.....?

Since no one has come up with a Microsoft innovation go ahead. 

Microsoft is the King of Cloning, I can't think of anything they did first.
Title: Re: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source
Post by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on July 17, 2004, 10:38:49 pm
Quote from: IKV Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 04:42:48 pm
Link to Article ([url]http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39122181,00.htm[/url])

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has criticised the lack of innovation in open source software and accused the community of merely trying to "clone" commercial software.


Can anyone list a single (successful) software innovation by Microsoft?

Since I said successful not mentioning Microsoft Bob.



Licensing.  They were the first ones to believe that they could make real money selling O/S and software, rather than just hardware.

Title: Re: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source
Post by: Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 11:38:49 pm
Quote from: Barabbas on July 17, 2004, 10:38:49 pm
Licensing.  They were the first ones to believe that they could make real money selling O/S and software, rather than just hardware.

Digital Research beat them with CP/M on the OS front for microcomputers.    The company that wrote DOS (a CP/M clone alledgedly) obviously beat them (MS) as well.  I don't know if anyone beat them for BASIC though.

A company called MicroPro was founded to sell a word processor (it became WordStar) in 1976, long before Microsoft developed Word..