Comments

• mcinsand

  2013-01-03 15:41:55

  As long as we're adding to the list, we can't forget security and honesty.
  
  It's about time for Apple to sue MS for copying Apple's business model.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2013-01-03 15:46:38

  It's the opposite way, isn't it? When I come to think of it, they both copy one another when it comes to practices. Perhaps they can cross-license those business models. Oh, wait, they did cross-license. They have for decades.

• Needs Sunlight

  2013-01-03 15:22:57

  That would be "demonizing". "Daemonizing" applies to computer processes.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2013-01-03 15:29:30

  Isn't demon just short for dæmon? Or maybe the verb requires the former form? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)

• mcinsand

  2013-01-03 15:35:13

  Maybe NS does have a point, though, especially for the computer literate. Daemons are useful, unlike Windows, and I say this despite the fact that I remove cupsd anytime I set up a computer for myself.
  
  What MS is doing with respect to Google is particularly sickening, though, since MS is accusing Google of using MS' standard business practices: anticompetitive trade restraint, standards patents misuse, etc.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2013-01-03 15:40:11

  The same for privacy.

• mcinsand

  2013-01-03 16:13:15

  Back in the early days of the PC, in the 1980's, MS was the open platform. I can't remember the name of the event, but hardware and software vendors used to get together to ensure interoperability, and MS actually participated. There were numerous competing word processors, drawing packages, etc. for the PC, and it was an exciting ecosystem.
  
  When Apple became more popular, especially with the introduction of the Macintoy, MS seemed to really start paying attention to what Apple was getting away with. Apple was doing things that, for decades, raised the attention of agencies concerned with anticompetitive behavior. Where IBM as royally slapped down earlier for requiring customers to only use IBM punchcards, Apple was getting away with far more and far worse anticompetitive tying. Not only that, but, as I like to cite with my favorite example, Data General's refusal to license RDOS for use in other hardware was ruled illegal... while Apple has been given carte blanche in tying Apple's OS to overpriced/underchoiced offerings.