[tex-live] Copying symbolic links to Windows

Philip Taylor (Webmaster) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Fri Aug 24 12:49:41 CEST 2007



Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

> By the way. It makes me mad that Microsoft bitches about their
> intellectual property whereas they keep adopting more Unix features,
> implicitly admitting that all along Unix was right and they were
> wrong. So their intellectual property mainly cover botched solutions
> to problems that were already solved right in Unix. Sorry for the
> rant.

Surely criticism would be justified/justifiable only if Microsoft
/refused/ to accept that anyone could have better ideas than them ?

I once worked for a company within which it was strictly forbidden
to consider any idea that "the competition" had come up with, and
that is one of the main reasons that I left that company.

** Phil.


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