Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Date: 23 Aug 2015 21:19:03 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net iQctKopQE3uwEnIDNAdcowq5bR7azGF4bPi3flfjlB/OwIYPKJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:xwUMO/Vv7HHywnBh+qOaXD1jxcs= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:150238 comp.misc:8452 On 2015-08-23, Santo Brown wrote: > > > "Osmium" wrote in message > news:d3uhhnF2hsmU1@mid.individual.net... >> "Walter Banks" wrote: >> >> WRT gates and Jobs >> >>> Neither were in the position to force customers to use their product. >>> They didn't sell products based on price alone. Sales volume is an >>> interesting way to keep score. They both have had products that were >>> widely copied. Why do people buy their products then? >> >> Remind me which products of Gates was widely copied? > > The Win UI is widely copied in linux distros. Irrelevant, given that it's all copied from Xerox PARC. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 16th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.