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   From: bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz   
      
   In article , Soupe du Jour  wrote:   
   >On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:50:46 -0500, Buddha wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:50:12 +0000 (UTC), Soupe du Jour   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>What vision? They bought DOS from someone else and copied Windows from   
   >>>the Mac. Even Excel was really just Lotus 123 with a GUI interface.   
   >>   
   >> And the Mac ripped off Xerox, and Lotus 1-2-3 ripped off VisiCalc...   
   >> yeah,   
   >> yeah.  VisiCalc was actually a rip off of paper spreadsheets and a guy   
   >> with a calculator (the later part being a rip off of a guy with an   
   >> abacus).  Copying things that work is not theft, it is simply the way   
   >> the world works.  That is why most of the Linux desktops "ripped off"   
   >> Windows.   
   >   
   >Are you always this obtuse? None of what you said proves that Microsoft   
   >has vision.   
      
   A few weeks or months back, I asked semi seriously ... "what has MS actually   
   inovated themselves" ? ... ie, something they didn't buy in.   
   The only accurate answer to date was ... "the paperclip ".  :) :)   
      
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