The war is over, Friend. (was: Re: GuhNoo: World's Biggest Technical Leecher)

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:35:12 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
 
 

Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:

 
 
The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
 
 
"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
 
 
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of
being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.

What a weird perspective you have on modern systems.

Take TCP/IP, for example:

Where did Windows get TCP/IP from?  Remember when Bill Gates
thought the Internet was a "fad", until he had his bad burrito dream?

Before Windows had TCP/IP, you had to run something like Trumpet Winsock
to provide the services.  Linux TCP/IP had a shaky start, but today,
it houses the most advanced networking stack, except possibly
the BSD's, and that's debatable.

And now Windows actually incorporates Linux as a "subsystem" to do
things Windows simply can't do.

Second time I've said it today: we stand on the shoulders of giants.
"We" being both Linux and Windows.

Azure?  Runs on the Microsoft Linux distribution.

You think there's a battle being fought -- but the war is over, and
Microsoft is like post-war Germany, being rehabilitated by
the democracies.

You're like the out-of-touch soldier stuck on a South
East Asian island, unaware the war is long over, defending
desperately your desktop hilltop.

You're stuck in the age of the SCO sales debacle.

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-v