>>>Don't take it verbatum. Maybe I should have said, "I'd rather be [part of] the company who implements the successful product--not the guy who came up with the idea." Anyway, you already knew what I meant and that I was speaking metaphorically.<<<
Sorry, there didn't seem to be anything satirical or humorous in your statement to inform me that you meant the reverse of what you said. Maybe I should wait for the full 15 minutes of your editing time before I respond.
>>>Say I'm the guy who develops warp drive....By YOUR definition, I merely copied someone else's idea, therefore I am neither innovative nor inventive.<<<
What you have developed is a new way of warping my position. Actually, if you developed warp drive I would volunteer to have your baby.
>>>I don't know what this has to do with "Microsoft hugging." I'm merely saying that:
1) By your definition, neither Microsoft nor Netscape is innovative.
2) By my definition, both Microsoft and Netscape are innovative.<<<
No, I'm saying that there are many levels of innovation and creation, stretching level after level, far far above the level you have contented yourself with. Netscape is a couple levels up from Microsoft, and Andresen himself perhaps three. Why? They were the key company in creating the *commercial* internet. Microsoft, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found when it counted. It came in way after, as innovatively as Safeway deciding to sell milk.
Naturally, I would rate Berners-Lee, and the other true pioneers of the internet much higher. The inventors of networking higher than that, of monoclonal antibodies higher than that, Einstein and Pasteur higher than that, Jefferson and Leonardo higher than that.
Where on this scale are the 'innovators' at Microsoft? Perhaps where the flatworm is relative to a human being, if you compare them to Leonardo, for instance.
At Microsoft they do a job, and in a certain way. That's it. Somebody post it when a Microsoft team or individual working on company time on company products does something fabulous, and I'll quit saying it. Now I know that they are funding some research by outsiders they are going to call Microsoft fellows or whatever. That's a good start. When they achieve 5% of what Bell Labs or Sony or Tektronix or Intel has in fundamental R&D, I'll stop saying it.
Chaz |
