"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have."

--Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

Summary: Microsoft is still in catch-up mode; Apple is increasingly entering litigation mode against Linux, just like Microsoft

HYPOCRISY reaches new levels when a company insists on copying GNU or Linux and then suing it for alleged "copying". Apple now uses more than just patents, resorting to other forms of intellectual monopolies as though Apple actually invented tablets. Apple invented the over-pricing model and excelled at that, but that's just all it ever did. Actually, even that is not Apple's invention as Steve Jobs' good friends at Oracle, for example, do the same thing (but not on the desktop).

People who overcome the reality distortion field would probably be aware that copying of ideas is usually based on platforms like GNU/Linux and Free software in general -- the areas where all the talented developers tend to go and work freely, expanding creatively their own environment (KDE is an excellent example). As Microsoft is ramping up Vista 8 (Vista 7 sales are poor in business and Microsoft counts XP sales as "7"), it is clear that the whole thing is just more marketing, not more substantial features. It's like Mojave or Vista 7 all over again, relying on PR departments, not engineering. "Microsoft will allow USB key installs of Windows 8" says this headline, boasting imaginary (yet to be seen to be believed) features that have already existed in GNU/Linux for ages. Should "Linux" sue Microsoft for copying? If it had adopted Microsoft's and Apple's modus operandi, it would, wouldn't it? ⬆