Bzzz Bzzz
and to those who say cutler stole nt, i would ask:
1) didn't microsoft have the foresight to recruit him over?
Sure, and Cutler had the foresight to get out when the going was good.
2) exactly how did cutler steal the code?
Probably wrote out a tape or something. It's not hard. It's also documented, big story in BW. I'd discounted the rumors, here, before that story broke, the only time Alan Buckley ever agreed with me, but I was wrong.
i consider NT to be msft's, no matter what the naysayers think.. i'm saying that msft is capable of creating an original product.
Sure. They oughta be, they got a lot of smart people working for them. Out of that 30million-odd lines of code, it'd probably be hard to pin down much of the stolen DEC code, and where's DEC anyway? It's just another standard Microsoft business practice thing, like Bill's forever on-the-horizon next "innovation", speech recognition, which the last story I read said MSFT bought from Learnout & Hauspie. Oops, Bill "invested" in L&H, no doubt getting royalty free code rights in return, in addition to the piece of the company any regular investor would have to be content with. Now John Malone, there's a smart guy, Bill invests in TCI, and Microsoft has to give them code. Malone shouldn't be paranoid though, even though Wince is going to be just like Windows. Want to take a crack at explaining that one?
Cheers, Dan. |
