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Re: Piece sorting methods
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:30:38 GMT
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:21:26 GMT, Beaker <beaker@havoc.gtf.org> wrote:
> Also sprach Jasper Janssen:
> : <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n'
> : Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole
> : it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to
> : sue is beyong me.... (1)</devil's>
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> Apple didn't steal it from Xerox-PARC, they asked if they could develop
> it ... and Xerox-PARC, being a research facility, said yes, in perhaps
> the greatest blunder since IBM had decided that the home-PC market was
> just a passing fad and lacking business application ...
Oh I don't know... "640k ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates,
1983 or thereabouts.... Of course, that was later, so your statement
still stands :)
> And the hell of it is, if Apple had focused on continuing to stay out in
> front of Microsoft instead of pinning all of their hopes on a
> never-never lawsuit, the industry would be better off today.
Possibly. Tho personally, I find the apple UI somewhat worse than the
current win98 one. (1)
Jasper
(1) Disclaimer: Do not start about stability. I didn't mention
stability, don't want to know about stability. If I want stability, I
turn to Linux. (2)
(2) As I have done for servers & stuff...
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| (...) Linux isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's not portable, it's not scalable, no one uses it for anything serious, and it'll soon be in violation of the standards as soon as Microsoft invents them. Microsoft invented the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Also sprach Jasper Janssen: : <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' : Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole : it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to : (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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