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Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by wklauss on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:23AM (#12836445)
> Steve Jobs was just much better at having many of those failures never see the light of day.

Not even that. A lot of his failures saw the light of day, we have just forgotten about them. The same we will do with the current ones.

This, BTW, applies to all companies. To reach this point the Surface line has gone through a lot of mediocre products and bad decisions, we just don't think about them anymore. And Windows 10 still has some serious pain points that need to be worked out, specially on the Surface line with touch interfaces.

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Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by wmccullough on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:26AM (#12836952)
I agree completely, you articulated that way better than I could.
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Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by chris_wot on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:33AM (#12836519)
Ah, if only that worked for OSS stuff like Gnome.
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Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by bluejekyll on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:17AM (#12837496)
OSS runs by different rules. It's more about how many Devs can you attract you your project. The number of users is less important in a sense, though that usually has an effect on the number of Devs contributing to a project.

So Gnome and KDE need more Devs to become better, and people only have so much spare time, which is why having corporate backers is also critical to projects.

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