Strap on your rubber boots....
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| land0 Jun 23, 2007 12:47 PM EDT |
Your going to need them in order to wade through the crap spewed by this one. All I have to say is WOW! lol rofl |
| johnb316 Jun 23, 2007 1:07 PM EDT |
Considering that the article is posted at "Huffington-Puffington-Blow-It-Down" Post (aka Huffington Post), it shouldn't be surprising that you would need waders to navigate through the crap, LOL. ;-) Cheers, John |
| purplewizard Jun 23, 2007 1:25 PM EDT |
I hate sites (blogs! in effect) that expect you to log in to post comments. I wanted to point out the obvious about cars as they often get to be the OS comparator. What is a 21st century car like the latest Ford Mondeo, oh hang on it's a copy of the original idea but with a century of refinement and innovation. They still have doors, a bonnet and a boot are steered by a wheel and have gears often with a stick! Is it all really a matter of confusing revolution with innovation? |
| incinerator Jun 23, 2007 2:01 PM EDT |
The best is the mumbojumbo about that professor Krzysztof Klincewicz. He teaches management, how likely is it that guy actually having a clue about technology in order to properly judge technical innovation? D'oh. |
| bigg Jun 23, 2007 2:18 PM EDT |
Well, given that his definition of innovation is apparently something that you go, "Wow, that's a mind-blowing original idea that nobody has ever thought about before!" there's really no such thing as innovation in the IT industry. Hence, open source cannot be innovative. From an economic viewpoint, original ideas have a value of exactly $0. The combination of original ideas plus a way to make them practical has positive value. Improving on existing implementations is valuable. Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, any successful technology company spends most of its resources improving existing technology. And by the way, Sam Walton and every successful retailer copied ideas all the time. Maybe he should read Drucker. Putting Dr. in front of his name really adds credibility, doesn't it? He's apparently got a Ph.D. in psychology! Guess just one more reason to not read the Huffington Post. |
| hughesjr Jun 23, 2007 11:44 PM EDT |
johnb316 ... wrt your comment, absolutely :D What else would one expect at the "Huffington Post". The guy DECIDED that Firefox was not innovative ... implying that M$ Internet Explorer is. However, it was IE that was the copy and Netscape that was the original browser. Same with real player. Every time there is innovation in the open source process, Microsoft steals it, wraps it tightly into their source code (Because it is, OF COURSE, an "INTEGRAL" part of the "CORE" functionality of the OS and could not possibly be UNCOUPLED from their CODE. Never mind the fact that in the open source world, that same functionality is DESIGNED to be wrapped in with any number of other programs (you pick between the 10,000 available packages and it "JUST WORKS" together). Not innovative ... PLEASE :D |
| Aladdin_Sane Jun 24, 2007 3:42 AM EDT |
>>However, it was IE that was the copy and Netscape that was the original browser. Um, not to detract from your point, with which I agree, I do wish to add this for the sake of accuracy: Open IE in your WINE installation, and pull down Help/About. Here is the info for those who do not have any access to IE: "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc. Contains security software licensed from RSA Data Security Inc. Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); video, Indeo(R) audio, and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp. Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation. Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law." |
| jdixon Jun 24, 2007 8:30 AM EDT |
hughesjr: > However, it was IE that was the copy and Netscape that was the original browser. No. Mosaic was the original graphical browser. Aladdin_Sane: > Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM)... Which just sort of proves hughesjr's comment that: > Every time there is innovation in the open source process, Microsoft steals it, wraps it tightly into their source code ... I used Mosaic. It was a fairly good browser in it's day. IE warped it beyond all recognition. |
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