02-27-2003, 12:37 PM
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Originally posted by Backov
Wow you people are misinformed.
It was the other way around - Microsoft had a hand in the development of Mac OS 1.0, in concert with the Apple engineers. They BOTH stole the idea from Xeroc PARC.
The $150 million that MS gave Apple was stupid Steve Jobs money (that at that point Apple didn't need anymore) - it was a payoff to get Apple to include Internet Explorer with Mac OS. Something Gil Amelio didn't want to do for that little money, and something Jobs did the second he got into office.
I am not particularly fond of Microsoft lately, but it has nothing to do with their OSes - Win2k is top notch, and if you strip the cruft off of XP, it's good as well.
It's their DRM/Palladium/Activation shit. They're getting all police-state-y, and I'm sure Win2k will be my last Microsoft OS.. Linux as a desktop OS is VERY close to being able to replace Win2k. When it gets close enough I'll never use Windows again, except perhaps as a game machine. ;>
Cheers,
Backov
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You tell them dude. eheh |
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