Parrot Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 So, the point is that Microsoft is a better managed company than Apple? If so, this has always been the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenratboy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ---------------- On 8/14/2005 12:18:09 AM Malcolm wrote: So, the point is that Microsoft is a better managed company than Apple? If so, this has always been the case. ---------------- ^^^What he said^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Besides that point, I was looking at the larger picture of Microsoft never originating anything themselves but always copying other designers' innovations, altering them slightly, and then behaving ruthlessly. That's Bill Gates for you, you remember him, the visionary who saw no future for the internet except maybe for some email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted August 14, 2005 Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2005 At least they diden't claim they invented the internet like that goofball al gore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyT Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 But they may claim a patent on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OoTLink Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 MS patented something that Apple patented after the iPod came out, both patents were made after the iPod came out, apparently both address it (somehow), and well.. MS got it and apple didn't. That doesn't mean Apple can't re-apply for it. Still stupid though, uh I'm not sure that a company who has stock skyrocketing like Apple, or the huge "following", is "badly managed". That'd be like saying Logitech is better managed than klipsch because more gamers buy their speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ---------------- On 8/14/2005 11:54:09 AM dtel wrote: At least they diden't claim they invented the internet like that goofball al gore. ---------------- http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ---------------- On 8/14/2005 9:39:49 AM Parrot wrote: Besides that point, I was looking at the larger picture of Microsoft never originating anything themselves but always copying other designers' innovations, altering them slightly, and then behaving ruthlessly. That's Bill Gates for you, you remember him, the visionary who saw no future for the internet except maybe for some email. ---------------- This is the strong point of Microsoft,they are smart.YOU do the work and THEY profit from it The hard working peons sweat and the boss collects sitting his 300lbs frame in the comfy chair.Nothing new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 ---------------- On 8/14/2005 12:18:09 AM Malcolm wrote: So, the point is that Microsoft is a better managed company than Apple? If so, this has always been the case. ---------------- I'm sure someone like Gil could clarify further... but I believe that given the sequence of events, Apple can avoid paying any royalties based on the fact the Microsoft applied for the patent after Apple's product was released. If it can't, it only proves how meaningless the US patents have become... and I may consider applying for a patent on the concept of "public transport"... Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 "Besides that point, I was looking at the larger picture of Microsoft never originating anything themselves but always copying other designers' innovations, altering them slightly, and then behaving ruthlessly. That's Bill Gates for you, you remember him, the visionary who saw no future for the internet except maybe for some email." I bet you're using IE to compose this post, Parrot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyholiday Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 apple another study in the psychology of crowd behavior an technical analyises she's stuck at $40 an some change post split, this is whats known as a sexy stock,an then their not sexy anymore, http://www.decisionpoint.com/ChartSpotliteFiles/050218_AAPL.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcmjrt Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Microsoft has a history of being the johnny-come-lately gorilla who kills the companies who actually create and innovate...and I am absolutely NOT using IE to post this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jheis Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 This poster has been M$ free since 1992 and Dross 3.0. Never looked back. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Bill Gates is always thinking 5-10 years ahead. Most other large corporations do buy their innovations from other smaller companies, witness the consumer products, children's toys and food industries! Al Gore and Congress did privatize and give away the military's ARPnet, they also formed a private government committee (CANN) to regulate Network Solutions and set prices for domain names: if that didn't create the Internet - then what did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 ---------------- On 8/16/2005 8:32:01 AM Colin wrote: Al Gore and Congress did privatize and give away the military's ARPnet, they also formed a private government committee (CANN) to regulate Network Solutions and set prices for domain names: if that didn't create the Internet - then what did? ---------------- Lawrence G. Roberts ... (Larry Roberts) (but he didn't "technically" invent it either) With that logic... Philips/Sony are responsible for the Compact Disk... so would that mean that they created the Dark Side of the Moon. Perhaps the inventor of the microphone did? Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 "and I am absolutely NOT using IE to post this." "YOU are the instrument of YOUR own destruction!" I am quite sure Parrot knows this well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-MAN Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 ---------------- On 8/14/2005 8:48:47 PM sputnik wrote: ---------------- On 8/14/2005 11:54:09 AM dtel wrote: At least they diden't claim they invented the internet like that goofball al gore. ---------------- http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp ---------------- I checked this link out and I have to conclude that the statement by Al Gore: "I took the initiative to create the internet..." initiative : (n) ascendancy, ingenuity, plan, resourcefulness, enterprise, advantage, lead create: (v) invent, establish, originate, fashion, form, make, build, construct, design explicitly MEANS that Al Gore had and "took the initiative" to personally create the internet, regardless of the hyperbole employed by the website in question, which is quite biased in order to regard the above statement as meaning anything other than what it clearly states in standard English. The term "create" explicity implies that it (the internet) was brought to existance from a state of non-existance. If he intended to say that he merely enhanced its utility, or promoted its further development, then the term "create" is clearly inappropriate to that description. Yes, he said it, I quoted it, and it's inarguably clear. He's an ***. DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 "He's an ***." I'll agree to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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