On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 08:11:46PM -0000, Paul Sutton wrote:

Like visio, innovated then MS took them over, what would microsoft do if other companies could not innovate for them,

And MS they say that the Open source community can't innovate as fast as Microsoft,

Like most of their pronouncements it's complete garbage. All the major innovations have come from academia where collabaration is a central tenet of the scientific discipline. To name just one: the WWW - courtesy of CERN. Academia has always been `open source' and that's where most of all future innovations will come from too. As a company they have not innovated one significant thing except the construction & subsequent use & abuse of a monopoly. Not one thing! With all their money....pitiful.... & an indication that they're too bloody idle to innovate. After all, why do they have to innovate? The money is still streaming in. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates all creative people equally.