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Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

I "never" defend IBM but I believe their patent count
exceeds the next ten corporations combined ???

I doubt you will find many supporters of MS here or
anywhere else for that matter.

Massive marketing does not make a great company. It just
makes them rich.

Michael Jacobsen wrote:


Jon,
Not that I'm disagreeing with you about your feelings toward Microsoft, but I don't know if I would go as far as saying that everything they did was copied or stolen. They have done plenty of research and development. Surely you would count some of these as innovations:

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