They're right though. If Microsoft hadn't worked on Office for years and invested so much R&D money in it, the shameless ripoff Open Office wouldn't exist. These open-source pirates just copied MS's hard work. Monkey see monkey do.
Openoffice was formally known as Staroffice then IBM bought it and made it opensource it has gone from strength to strength since the. Your argument does not stand. And since when has Microsoft done anything innovating? They either mimic their competitors or buy them out and label their achievements as their own.
Why is it that idiots like you have to display their certified ignorance. Well, please be an idiot - Buy only Microsoft software, Buy only iPod mp3 players, etc. I'm sure that next week Ballmer and/or Steve will be claiming that they gave Life to Human-Kind. So please, be a self assured idiot, just don't bother everyone else with it.
I'm sure that MS contributed as much code to 'Office', as they did to 'DOS'.
Unfortunately, there seem to be a plague of idiots posting on sites such as this; they have nothing constructive to contribute - but they're sure that everyone else is interested in their ignorance.
ford has done lots of R&D does that mean that no one else can make automobiles ? there are some things that are not fair to be monopolized by patents. I wonder what MS limits would be if we let them go unchecked. I'm sick of everything being locked down and controlled by oppressive corporations and the elite. they (Microsoft) sold their software and bloodied our financial noses with the cost of their protected developments for long enough. we society made MS wealthy just as much as they did for themselves, what more would be fair for them to ask at this point?
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They're right though. If Microsoft hadn't worked on Office for years and invested so much R&D money in it, the shameless ripoff Open Office wouldn't exist. These open-source pirates just copied MS's hard work. Monkey see monkey do.
Openoffice was formally known as Staroffice then IBM bought it and made it opensource it has gone from strength to strength since the. Your argument does not stand. And since when has Microsoft done anything innovating? They either mimic their competitors or buy them out and label their achievements as their own.
ha just as i finished reading your comment "monkey gone to heaven" came on my stereo
Love the Pixies!
MS office was not the first office suite. Get over it.
Why is it that idiots like you have to display their certified ignorance. Well, please be an idiot - Buy only Microsoft software, Buy only iPod mp3 players, etc. I'm sure that next week Ballmer and/or Steve will be claiming that they gave Life to Human-Kind. So please, be a self assured idiot, just don't bother everyone else with it.
I'm sure that MS contributed as much code to 'Office', as they did to 'DOS'.
Unfortunately, there seem to be a plague of idiots posting on sites such as this; they have nothing constructive to contribute - but they're sure that everyone else is interested in their ignorance.
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ford has done lots of R&D does that mean that no one else can make automobiles ? there are some things that are not fair to be monopolized by patents. I wonder what MS limits would be if we let them go unchecked. I'm sick of everything being locked down and controlled by oppressive corporations and the elite. they (Microsoft) sold their software and bloodied our financial noses with the cost of their protected developments for long enough. we society made MS wealthy just as much as they did for themselves, what more would be fair for them to ask at this point?