XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:23:35 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > The OSes don't really "invent" a lot of stuff.   
      
   Even ignoring what originally came from AT&T/Bell Labs Unix:   
      
   The core concept of a GUI display server that runs in userland and is not   
   part of the kernel originated with X11 (and its precursors) in the *nix   
   world.   
      
   The *nix world (Linux/BSD) invented integrated package management.   
      
   Microsoft copied its TCP/IP stack from BSD.   
      
   The “LAMP stack” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) as the traditional basis for   
   developing websites was never seriously threatened by Microsoft’s attempt   
   at “WAMP” (substituting overpriced, inflexible Windows Server for Linux,   
   and possibly IIS+ASP for Apache+PHP as well). In fact, Windows Server now   
   seems to be becoming a “legacy” product.   
      
   The Linux world invented the concept of containers. This is actually built   
   on the idea of partitioning all kernel objects into namespaces -- another   
   Linux innovation.   
      
   The new concept of “AI workstations” seems to be primarily if not entirely   
   Linux-based.   
      
   > But they copy from one another, incessantly and at high speed.   
      
   What we are seeing over the past few years/decades is the proprietary   
   platforms falling further and further behind, as their lack of flexibility   
   limits their ability to copy some of the newer concepts originating in   
   Free software.   
      
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