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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