re challenge to microsoft supporters dil admin mhs unc edu dave laudicina once wrote microsoft is the largest software company on the planet yet i cannot think of even one computing concept that they innovated and brought to market before anyone else xerox parc apple osborne next gnu and others have been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing what has microsoft done to be a technological leader i posted this question before but i got nary a reply i make the challenge now to anyone who can come up with something especially microsoft employees i get no response this time i guess it pretty much assures me that there is none which is what i suspect anyway really when you come down to it who cares i just hope ms keeps doing what they do best getting usable productive software to the masses personally i ll be blasphemous and say that if microsoft keeps doing what it does so well i hope to see much harsher stricter copyright and patent laws for computer algorithms concepts interfaces and other intellectual properties to protect real innovators i d hate to be one who actually does innovate and then have microsoft come in like a huge vulture and use their brute mass development staff marketing etc to get fat off of my innovation i don t have all that much sympathy for apple s complaint against microsoft since they just took the ideas from xerox s pa research center when the federal government forced xerox to disclose their patents over antitrust fears however for other companies and individuals who have a great idea yet get it borrowed by larger corporations who can afford to quickly bring it to market without any licensing from the original innovator i feel much sympathy larry larry weeks those who fight monsters should make sure that dev ecn purdue edu in the process he does not become a monster and when you look long into an abyss the abyss also looks into you friedrich nietszche
