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Originally Posted by 2048Megabytes
Sounds like how it is. Programmers for Linux come up with good ideas and implement them then Microsoft steals the technology to use it in their own operating systems.
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From my understanding Microsoft is quite brutal on copyright infringements. Yet they can copy other peoples work and there is no issue with it.
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Well, first, and this isn't a bash or flame, just observation... You only very recently started using Linux. You need to wait more than a couple of months in order to claim it as the Uber OS and take shots like that at MS.
Second, the majority (not all, but most) of software used in Linux distributions are Open-Source, meaning anyone can use/modify/distribute so long as certain conditions are met. It's the way of the world that you can start with something and make so many changes that it no longer resembles the original. That's when others can claim it as 'their own', as big software companies commonly do. However, they do have developers of their own who do make stuff completely from scratch. That's where the copyright infringement you mentioned comes into play when others try to take the new product and try to modify it again.