Obviously Linux. It is a near exact foreign clone of a US product. It has spawned many other foreign clones of US products such as "Red Flag" in China. They call them "distos", and there are hundreds of them across the globe, all designed to duplicate US Unix, but without a dime back to the US.
This article is about Microsoft gearing up to squash a smaller competitor through patents.
Be the first time, but this is no small competitor, it's a worldwide gang of leftists including foreign governments that is behind much of the push for open source software. It's a testament to the quality of Microsoft's product they've been able to hold on to 90% of the market, when they are literally being assaulted by not only software pirates but these open sourcers around the world who have entire governments attempting to standardize on it, out of their pure hatred of the US leadership position in software.
You have to admire American billionaires like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison who have taken the best shots the communists and extreme leftists worldwide have dished out, with all the piracy and copyleft software, and still hold their ground. Actually on the offensive now, it appears, even China is agreeing to enforce software laws and is paying US software companies record amounts for software, something long overdue. Good for us, I support American corporations over leftist radicals and communist cloners any day of the week.
Really? Multiple people make an OS by going off of the same specs, and you call them copies? OpenVMS, OS X, VXWorks (runs the Mars Rover), BSD, Windows NT and others fall under this.
Yet you give a pass to the operating system that was ripped off from another using employees of the company that created it? That's twisted.
Actually, NT qualifies as a "copy" under both criteria, since it's based on VMS and is POSIX compliant.
It's a testament to the quality of Microsoft's product they've been able to hold on to 90% of the market
It's a testament to illegal monopoly practices (convicted), the spread of FUD (Microsoft admitted to this tactic) and sheer market momentum.
You have to admire American billionaires like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison who have taken the best shots the communists and extreme leftists worldwide have dished out, with all the piracy and copyleft software, and still hold their ground.
Don't lump piracy with free software. Free software gets pirated, too, by companies that don't want to have to adhere to the license. For example, Linksys/Cisco, TomTom, Asus, Gigabyte and D-Link, all found to be illegally distributing free software. But IIRC you didn't seem to mind that piracy.
Actually on the offensive now, it appears, even China is agreeing to enforce software laws and is paying US software companies record amounts for software, something long overdue.
I read about that. It is good news. Lenovo (the company you hate) recently signed a $1.3 billion deal with Microsoft, succeeding a $1.2 billion deal last year (so it isn't exactly new news).