Lack of Innovation a Commonality for Microsoft, Apple

“Tiger, Jaguar, Leopard and Snow Leopard are therefore just as
much copy cats as Windows 7.

“But it does go to show that copying, or sharing, can be rather
productive. It’s a point that’s clearly not lost on Apple or
Microsoft, and one that the open source crowd have been proclaiming
openly for years: Sharing and making source code available for
improvement by anyone is what open source is all about after all,
and it’s what makes operating systems like Linux so powerful.

“It’s no surprise then that of the world’s most powerful
computers included in the latest Top 500 Supercomputing list, just
under 90 percent run Linux. The number of Windows and OS X machines
in the list can be counted on one hand.”

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