In comments to CNET News.com, Bill Gates suggested that the history of the Windows operating system pointed to the future inclusion of new features that are today provided by off-the-shelf applications sold by competitors.

"The history of Windows is that we do something in the platform and then there are some things missing that sell in high volume as add-ons.....People used to buy TCP/IP stacks. People used to buy basic backup software. People used to buy fonts. At least nominally, people paid for browsers...When you come into the world of software, you know that if you are up at a higher level and you have something superimportant, it's going to move down, down, down and eventually be part of every copy of the operating system, if it is something super-important."


esta n percebi...

básicamente daqui para a frente vamos ter 2DVD's cheios de software juntamente com um DVD com o SO praí ou então apenas um cheio de tretas e o SO :P

Tipo incluir no SO, O media player, o antivirus, o p2p, sei la' as apps todas k se usam hj em dia...

ah! tao a tentar remediar a ***** q fizeram... lol... assim ja ta mlhr

Então e onde se enquadra isto com o discurso a favor das patentes de software? :eek: