Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:20:22 01/06/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 23:08:07, Richard Heldmann wrote: >Microsoft is not innovative, never has been, never will be. Please tell me when >M$ had an original idea, not stolen/bought from someone else? If you don't want >chess to take two steps backward, pray they do not buy out Fritz, Junior or >Rebel. M$ does not write new code when it doesn't have to. They never start >from the ground up. They would simply BUY out Fritz or Junior or Rebel, add >their own standard crummy MS interface, put their name on it and rave how great >it will be in the next future release. Same old story. Microsoft did not make the first spreadsheet, word processor, or graphical OS, but neither did Lotus, Word Perfect, or Apple. Sometimes I hear people say something critical about Microsoft, and I can either agree or admit that I don't have any basis upon which to argue. No big deal, it's a big nasty company, I admit. But I can argue about the quality of the people there, I've seen that first hand. As creative as any of you are, there are people as creative there, and as dedicated as any of you are, there are people as dedicated there, and many of them are working at the frontiers of their respective products, and they are free to do whatever they want. bruce
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