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Story: Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'

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Gate's real problem with Linux/OSS is that it is a developing system, whereas Windows is the same old thing in a new fashion outfit.
One can see the truth of this by having a look at a 1984 Indy workstation, which had all the frills and colours of XP on 32bit Intel.
If Linux/OSS develops past this point on Wintel hardware, who will look at Gate's product as being "leading edge" any more, and what platform will Gates be able to base his "new innovations" on.

One must remember it was interoperability that spelt the death of the old IBM monopoly, another famous old box in new clothes strategist.
Like Gate's products, their own systems couldn't effectively interoperate without third party help, and lack of interoperation with smaller competing systems gave rise to what was then termed "Open Systems".

It was a *nix that took over the market because it showed users it could interoperate with anything, including all of IBM's products.

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