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- From the Desktop: Fishing for Trout, Catching a Marlin
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| All technology, computer or otherwise, is based on something that came before
| it. It doesn't just come out of thin air. Did Windows magically appear in the
| mind of some Microsoft engineer from the ether? Not hardly! They based the
| interface on work done by prior developers and slapped the whole thing on top
| of the DOS operating system that itself was a copy of CP/M. Microsoft didn't
| even make DOS themselves: it was built by a third-party development house and
| bought by Microsoft when the House of Bill made a deal with IBM.
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| Oh yeah, that's innovative.
|
| The whole scientific method, the current fad of looking at the universe, is
| based on this philosophy. Take the work of others and refine it to better fit
| the way we perceive the universe to work. Technology is the same way: it took
| 100,000 years for human beings to figure out how to build the microwave oven.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/6576/1/
Recent:
Editor's Note: What Linux Can Do That Those Big Proprietary Innovators Can't
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| I am bored. Bored of the word "innovation", and the way it is bandied about
| by every tech vendor. I don't know how they keep straight faces, maybe they
| actually believe their own bushwah. There are very few that demonstrate any
| actual innovation. I would say that Apple leads the industry; Intel, AMD, and
| Google are also on my "actually push the boundaries and do neat new things"
| list. Our favorite software monopolist innovates new extremes of bullying,
| thuggery, and extracting top dollar for overlapping licenses and pooware, so
| I don't think that rates inclusion.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-19-034-35-PS-CY-SW
Related:
Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy
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| Microsoft said you could count on them to improve patent quality.
| For an example of how they're raising the bar on innovation, check
| out this just-published patent application for Emotiflags, which
| Microsoft explains solves the problem of indicating an emotion
| associated with an email message. At the risk of infringing on the
| patent, this one Makes Me Mad!"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/038207&from=rss
Fun with Google Patent Search: Why does the maker of Windows hold a patent on
a door hinge?
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| The patent was granted in 1998 and received a dribble of publicity
| in 1999, but I'm hard pressed to find any meaningful explanation for
| a door hinge being in the control of the company that made Windows famous.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9721
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