Who's photocopying who?
OSNews: Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers?
OSNews regular Thom Holwerda on how Apple, who used the title above as a slogan when launching the current version of Mac OS X (Tiger) in 2005, has done a bit of photocopying of its own for the upcoming release, codenamed Leopard. Most of the new features it is offering have been available elsewhere in the industry for years, even decades, most obviously Spaces, a funked-up version of the virtual desktops presently available via a third-party add-on to OS X (and as standard in Linux). (More here, here and here.)
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It's like the same comments happen every year. When Tiger came out, everyone accused them of ripping off Konfabulator, which copied something else, etc. Leopard will have new things.
In the meantime, Windows XP did copy stuff from the MacOS. During the WWDC keynote, they put up picture comparisons, and Microsoft even stole a background logo for one.
Posted by: Sulayman
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August 21, 2006 11:09 PM