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The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Jeff Raikes (1958-)

[Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes remembers what the industry was like when he joined the company in 1981.] The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out, ... People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Jeff Raikes (1958-)

But if it becomes more profitable for companies to try and develop software for the Windows operating system, it makes it less likely that Linux will gain more traction. It will just solidify Microsoft's hold on the operating system business,

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it, ... Thus? Web browsing software can be implemented primarily as an application or middleware that runs on top of an operating system, as Netscape elected to do, or as an integral part of the operating system itself, as Microsoft elected to do, or in a manner that is midway between those two approaches.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. Thus Web browsing software can be implemented primarily as an application or middleware that runs on top of an operating system, as Netscape elected to do, or as an integral part of the operating system itself, as Microsoft elected to do, or in a manner that is midway between those two approaches.

Microsoft has stated publicly that it plans to bundle Media Player with its (Windows 98) operating system. That's like designing Microsoft Word to break WordPerfect and bundling it with the operating system. Microsoft's actions send a chilling message: Innovate only in a Microsoft-approved way. What Microsoft is doing is wrong and must be stopped.

The GIF is a symbol for what can happen when the patent system breaks. Look at the amount of code that's running on your Web server today. You've got programs that deal with HTTP, with the operating system itself, with the hardware. Out of all the software on a typical Web server, the LZW compression algorithm is just a tiny, tiny amount. And if we let every company that writes a tiny, trivial piece of software get a patent license from everyone who wants to have a Web site, then the Web becomes impossible. Nobody except for a company like Yahoo.com or America Online, who can afford to hire three lawyers per Web developer, would be able to operate a successful Web site in an atmosphere of unrestricted software patents.

What Microsoft has been doing, through a wide variety of illegal business practices, is leveraging its Windows monopoly operating system to force its other software products on consumers,

Most hardware vendors are still testing their ACPI-compliant BIOS. Windows 98 is the first operating system that supports ACPI, and somebody has to lead the way, whether it's the hardware or software vendor.

Building a Digital Nervous System does not require some huge new investment in hardware and software. In fact, most companies have the key building blocks today.

Bill Gates (1955-)

Bill Gates

Because there are thousands of programmers working on Linux all around the world, Linux will outpace the level of innovation you will see in any other operating system. Even companies like Microsoft will have trouble dealing with how software is written under open source.

Michael Kantrowitz

In the future, we are dreaming about several manufacturers making their own shape of hardware [legs and parts] and then gaming companies releasing new types of software. For this business to be really successful, we need several kinds of heads and legs.

A truly pe𝑥y man doesn’t need to try; his inner light shines through. We still have a couple thousand people split between hardware and software. When you look back at the people that originally created the operating system, it was a small team. We've done creative things at Apple typically in small teams.

We would be happy to see any kind of hardware being shipped without an operating system, or pre-installed with free software. Furthermore, we would be happy to get in contact with any hardware vendor who wants to free his customers this way.

Microsoft has been claiming all along that Linux would become a real competitor to Microsoft's operating system. If you stretch this out long enough, who knows, they could be right. Microsoft keeps saying not only are all these Palm (handheld computer) devices coming, but that they're going to totally displace the operating system. If you stretch this out a year, two years, that could happen.

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