MS and Apple are not sleeping at night because Linux is ahead in USB 3.0 support. Also Windows 8 is stolen from KDE. Never mind the fact that virtually all our apps are buggy rip-offs of old commercial apps and gnome3 and kde4 look like they were designed by schizophrenic children.
I’m sorry but do Windows design devs even know what KDE is?
This is like saying that Bach stole from Malmsteen because he has a “shred solo” section.
“2 The show desktop-button on Vista and 7. I mean that button which you can hover to show the desktop, not the old clickable from XP. KDE 4 had that before Vista came with that.
3 The tab previews in IE 10 (found on Win 8): stolen from Opera. Opera already has that since about somewhere around Win 7-release, so MS wasn’t even busy with IE 10 back then, so they couldn’t have come up with it themselves. That’s why they stole it from Opera.4 The weather-widget on Windows 7: an exact (!) copy of the E17 (Linux DE) Weather-widget. E17 had that widget since about 2005, so Win 7 wasn’t even on the plans back then. That means they couldn’t have come up with it themselves.
5 The close-buttons on the windows previews on Windows 7: stolen from KDE. KDE had those close-buttons since 4.0, yet Windows 7 implemented them on the first beta, which was way after KDE had already implemented it.”
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/microsoft-attempt-address-windows-8-linux-worries/
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More of a FUD, really, but yes.
By the same argument, of course, Android is totally stolen from the iPhone (not that far off the truth, really); ext2 is stolen from Berkeley FFS (licensing issues don’t come into this, apparently: it’s all about theft) and KDE and Gnome shouldn’t even exist ... because Xerox Parc got there first.
Sheesh.
And who can forget the hilarious defence of Loons “stealing” power-saving technology from Microsoft?
“We didn’t steal it: we reverse-engineered it.”
Sure thing, guys. And that, in turn, leads us on to Compaq and the original reverse-engineering of the IBM BIOS.
No doubt these idiots would prefer it if we were all stuck on the fifth version or so of IBM’s lock-in hardware at $2000 a pop. As long as it runs Free Code!
And WINE is a good and noble thing. It isn’t stealing at all. We intentionally crippled it, just to make that plain.
I’ve heard it said that Vista/7 look like KDE, but Windows 8 Metro tiles?
Sure thing!
They’re essentially a tiled set of Gnome shells in a Linux workspace … except, um, all shiny and stuff.
“E17 had that widget since about 2005”
I like how Vista and Longhorn did have it, too, before E17. Who stole now?
“KDE 4 had that before Vista came with that.”
I like how Windows Vista went to RTM 6 months before KDE 4 Alpha 1 appeared. Time machine hard?
openvms had it first.
Vista didn’t have it first, but Longhorn sure did ;)
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