Comment of the Day - Microsoft's Undisclosed Balance-Sheet Liability
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Comment of the Day - 24-Dec-2006
LXer reader, schestowitz, points out that Microsoft has one or two balance-sheet liabilities of its own: Opening the Pandora Box? I suspect not... IBM and others would rip them. Microsoft's Undisclosed Balance-sheet Liability NT influenced by Unix ,----[ Quote ] (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And that's no accident." In light of the recent saber rattling about Linux and patents, the "There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment" sentence is particularly interesting if these patent threats include things that are prior Unix art. "In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix" is also telling. I said before that I don't think that's the case; I think the patent stuff is talking about things like Samba and Mono, but even there the "influenced by that environment" could be important in the court of public opinion if not in actual law. `---- Read the rest
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