Topic: Microsoft's Ballmer hits out at "cloned" open source (Read 1462 times)

Nemesis · « **on:** July 17, 2004, 04:42:48 pm »

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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.

Iceman · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2004, 06:42:07 pm »

Innovation? no. First to market and make available.....?

Nemesis · « **Reply #2 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.

The Bar-Abbas Anomaly · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2004, 10:38:49 pm »

Quote from: IKV Nemesis on July 17, 2004, 04:42:48 pm

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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.

Nemesis · « **Reply #4 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..

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