| Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Date | 28 Apr 2003 11:05:06 +0200 |
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rmoser <mlmoser@comcast.net> writes:
> >Nowdays very few programs show any genuinely new ideas. For the > >greater part, they are new implementations of very old concepts. Take > >Microsoft. They produce operating systems and word processors. They > >were not by far the first to do either of these. Actually, I can't > >think of anything where MS has come up with something really new. The > >idea of using a display (possibly graphical) with multiple windows was > >at one time such a new thing. > > wtf? Wasn't that W? (the W windowing system)
Read carefully again. I did *not* say that MS invented window systems, quite the contrary. What I said, was that the invention, whenever it took place and whoever the inventor, was, at that time, a new thing. All later window systems are, in Larry's sense, copies of the first one.
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