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sanandreasshole (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
V for Vista Baby! (X for Mac OS X!)
LordDestros (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The foundation of anything is extremely important. MINIX and Mach could be argued to have a degree of innovation as they were microkernels (well the prior was an OS featuring one). MS created their own core as NT. Mac OS X merely merged two existing kernels. MS may have used ideas but Apple used source code. Either way, I believe the criticism regarding the "copying" of ideas to be rather pointless and counterproductive. There is little reason to re-invent the wheel for each product.
hello109228 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
they did too rip off mac OS X just because something is in the bottom left hand corner instead of the upper right hand corner doesn't make it different at all and just because something is named a gadget instead of a widget doesn't make it any different and finally just because the vista version of mac chess doesn't include grass as a board doesn't make it any different ether
so in conclusion vista is indeed a rip off of mac OS X
DaveTV2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The core OS? LOL! So what? It is not the core that makes an OS unique. That is just the foundation. It is what is done with it, the innovation of features and how it all is pulled together in what amounts to the end user's experience that matters most. Are you that desperate to take credit from Apple?
Your argument is like saying "gee all houses have cement or block foundations so all houses are the same and the architect's design and what he built on that foundation is less important.
LordDestros (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
True but Apple didn't really create most of the core OS. They merely merged two existing ones as Darwin runs on XNU which consists of BSD and Mach.
Peace7Maker (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
He talk the same way that the guy in "Will it blend?" xD
DaveTV2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I would never say they didn't but A. the scales of who rips off who weigh HEAVILY to MS's side. That is very clear and history supports it. B. When Apple does take, adopt, steal (whatever term you want to use) an idea, they RARELY just copy it as MS so often does. Apple almost always makes an effort to re-design or re-innovate it. Time Machine is a great example. In the end some features just become expected. It is what you choose to do with them that determines if you are innovative or not.
LordDestros (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Apple has still used ideas from elsewhere. E.g. "Spaces".
DaveTV2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
FYI, the dock was part of the very first version of OSX released back in 2001 so if something similar appeared in XP in 03 that is about par for the course of MS. The real genesis of the dock actually dates back to the NeXTSEP OS that Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple in the early - mid 90s
wenwen1088 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
LOL total sarcasm |
