[coaltrain]

“M$ has been shamelessly ripping off Apple since the beginning of Windows.”

Kinda like how Jobs ripped off PARC for Mac OS GUI and the mouse.

[Goldsborough]

Apple paid for unfettered access to PARC. Microsoft stole the Apple implementation for its own use while developing the first versions of Word for their competitor's platform. The early versions of Windows media players contained whole sections of code lifted directly from Quicktime.

Catcall "fanboy" all you want. I was making fun of the author's use of "finally." It only took this long to see the M$ copying if one wasn't looking for it.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Kinda like how Jobs ripped off PARC for Mac OS GUI and the mouse."

[facepalm]

Xerox was paid for that. It's no one's fault but Xerox's that it cannot figure out how to make market successes out of its own inventions. That's a chronic problem with that company.