NA> They've copied and ripped off stuff over the many years but mostly were
NA> "subtle" about it. When Billy and Ballmer were at the helm, the big thing
NA> was at least the OS had some level of quality to it... even Vista got
NA> relatively quick patches and service packs to fix how broken it was.

I remember Microsoft ripping off Stacker back in the day with Double Space. When
they hired all the top coders from Stacker and basically stole the technology
from Stacker, then got sued.  Microsoft still won - the lawsuit was just part of
doing business.  

NA> With Windows 10 and Server 2016 onward, everything is just a mishmash of
NA> things that look like it hasn't been tested all the way through, and
NA> updates are *constant* it seems. They keep saying Windows is a service
NA> but its not, its an OS. Updates once or twice a year would be okay, not
NA> every month or every week or whatever.

Cisco does the same thing these days.  I think all the testers and QA people
have been terminated to save money.  The customer and public is the QA and
tester these days.  Cisco releases things that are so not ready for prime time,
it is like a joke.  Companies feel like having something available vs nothing is
better, but when your stuff doesn't work and riddled with issues no one trusts
it anymore.

- Mark

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