8 Features Win8 Took From Linux


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This is just an assumption. If Linux GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc. took stuff from Windows. Windows users will complain to heaven's on end, but if it's vice-versa. Windows users would say it is okay and stop crying about it. JS.

Real world evidence says otherwise...

I wish Linux would steal quality commercial software from Windows. Otherwise, I really don't care if they get those features before Windows. I minimize my time in the OS and with its "features" and instead focus on the software I need to run to get my job done.

Some folks like to just stare at features in the OS I guess.

I summed this article up as "Different people come up with similar solutions? zomg! It's almost like people have similar ideas, or that there's a common way of working! </scarasm>"

The problem arises when one of them patents the ideas and sues the others. Neonode and Apple's slide to unlock feature comes to mind.

I read the topic title, giggled knowing what comments are blasphemous article I'd read; happy to say I was not disappointed haha

I'm officially a heretic it seems :p

I wish Linux would steal quality commercial software from Windows. Otherwise, I really don't care if they get those features before Windows. I minimize my time in the OS and with its "features" and instead focus on the software I need to run to get my job done.

I like to run the same applications no matter which OS I use, which is why I prefer free open source applications over proprietary. I run Libre Office, The Gimp, and many others for instance on both Windows XP, Windows 7, and Linux. They're free to boot :)

Some folks like to just stare at features in the OS I guess.

I'm a lot like you actually. It's the applications that matter for me. I just love the fact that there's a free open source application for every need. I just wish Windows XP/7 had a package manager like Linux so I could download and install my favourite apps directly from inside the OS.

Who's to say Linux in its turn didn't "borrow" it from Mac OS? Things like disk image mounting, being able to install the OS on an external drive and cloud integration have been part of the Mac for ages now. Some starting 2001, others long before that. Of course back in the dotMac days we didn't call it "the cloud" yet but the principle is the same.

It's funny how the Linux crowd is always eager to point out Windows "took" things from Linux, but we never hear about the vast amount of things Ubuntu, per example, took from OS X. Down to the the window control buttons being moved from the right to left side and arranged in the EXACT same order as OS X. Hell, the latest thing Canonical tried to sell to the public as being their own unique invention is being able to quickly access a menu item by typing in a few letters in a search box and the corresponding command pops up. They actually went as far as saying how archaic OS X' Menu Bar design is. What the Ubuntu team conveniently forgot to mention in their post is that their menu search thing has actually been a part of OS X since the OS X Tiger Developer Previews dating all the way back to 2004-05. Staggering really. But as always let's just pretend those things never occurred the way they did.

Another thing I notice is that when Apple and Microsoft introduce a new feature to the public in a keynote (and later on in an actual Developer Preview) Linux developers scramble in numbers to quickly bake the same thing into their distro. Of course 9 out of 10 times it's a rush job and thus a half-assed implementation, but then at least they can try to claim they did it first.

If anything I think Apple and Microsoft look the most at each other. In the mobile space you can add Google as well. Desktop Linux? Not so much.

Or just, "Microsoft is catching up with everywhere else in these areas"? There's no question that Linux was ahead in some things and behind in others, I think it's all starting to even out.

I agree. They all borrow from each other. And that's something we all benefit from. The only threat to this rapid pace of innovation and feature sharing is patents are far as I see. Imagine a world where software developers could implement and improve upon the work of others without fear of litigation and financial ruin! We'd all be better off then.

Who's to say Linux in its turn didn't "borrow" it from Mac OS? Things like disk image mounting, being able to install the OS on an external drive and cloud integration have been on the Mac for ages now. Some starting 2001, others long before that. Of course back in the dotMac days we didn't call it "cloud" but the principle is the same.

Linux and free open source software in general has definitely borrowed a lot of ideas from OS X. OS X does a lot things really great, both in user experience and aesthetics. It goes both ways though. Apple makes some great products, It's just a shame it chooses to litigate instead of welcoming competition.

It's just a shame it chooses to litigate instead of welcoming competition.

There's currently a war going on within the mobile space; a relatively new market. All major companies sue each other for the smallest things. Expect that within a few years things will have settled.

I'm very tempted to move this thread to the Jokes & Funny Stuff forum. . . . :hmmm:

I can easily say your sentiment over such idea (of wanting to move the post to the "Joke" secion) seems bit power-abusing as a moderator.

It seems like 99% of the people replying to the forum is bent one direction. I read this one reply and he sound like he is/was once a Microsoft Employee.

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There's currently a war going on within the mobile space; a relatively new market. All major companies sue each other for the smallest things. Expect that within a few years things will have settled.

Due to the way companies abuse patents these days when it has finally settled the result will be far different from what we have in the OS Sector where feature borrowing is commonplace

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