[aklug] Re: PowerShell

From: Jim MacDonald <jim@macdonald.org>
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 10:50:08 AKDT

Actually I am referring to PC DOS. The original MS OS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS#Intellectual_property_dispute

On Oct 10, 2012, at 10:02, Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Jim MacDonald wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the one liners all day, I wasn't in a place where I could properly respond but I'd like to take a moment to do just that, From my perspective as a professional Unix admin I'd like to point out that MS got it's start by purchasing a stripped version of an OS. Stripped in such a way that they took a basic UNIX like OS and stripped all the networking capability out of it to make a PC OS.
>>
>> They then proceeded to make Billions spending then next 30 years adding all that same functionality back into it. It's nice to finally see them have a similar functionality that UNIX has had all along. I'm sorry that Windows users have funded the development of something that has existed for decades. That being said? Just because a function exists doesn't mean it's going to get used extensively? I have seen windows admins click on 30 windows to add something to the registry when they could have done the same thing with one sentence in the commandline.
>
> ? You're referring to Xenix? Which they sold to SCO? Then hired VMS guys
> to develop NT after falling out w/IBM over OS/2?
>
> In short, my recollection is that MS never acquired and stripped any UNIX
> OS. They had Xenix, and they sold it seven years later. A historical
> oddity for the company that has no place in their family tree of OS's.
>
> I agree, they're late to the party, but not because they monetized the
> features over time. If there's one thing MS is good at, it's *not* learning from other examples in the industry. They had to learn the CLI lesson the hard way because of arrogance and hubris.
>
> As for their administrators... poor bastards. They don't know any better,
> and they've got Stockholm Syndrome.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

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