● 12.09.06

●● Has Microsoft Stolen UNIX Ideas?

Posted in Bill Gates, Intellectual Monopoly, Microsoft, Patents, UNIX, Windows at 4:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

If Windows is so genuine and innovative, then how can Microsoft explain the following?

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Gates: “And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And that’s no accident.”

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In light of the recent saber rattling about Linux and patents, the “There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment” sentence is particularly interesting if these patent threats include things that are prior Unix art. “In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix” is also telling. I said before that I don’t think that’s the case; I think the patent stuff is talking about things like Samba and Mono, but even there the “influenced by that environment” could be important in the court of public opinion if not in actual law.

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This is definitely a noteworthy observation, which has just been posted by Anthony Lawrence.

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