I'm tired of hearing that Apple is the be-all-and-end-all of innovation. They steal ideas as much as everyone else. Maybe back in 1984 they clearly led the way in graphical UIs. But since then the innovation has been spread out across the industry: sometimes Apple innovates, sometimes Microsoft innovates, and sometimes someone else innovates. In the end, that doesn't stop Apple from including those other innovations in their OS without attribution. So stop your whining Apple.

Dave Winer's Weblog

What to do when the platform vendor "validates" your product by copying it and announcing it will bundle the copy with the OS. I love what Konfabultor did, kick them in the ass, hard, with their own humor. "Cupertino, start your photocopiers." It's funny because that's what Apple said yesterday to poke Microsoft in the ribs (in a nice way of course). That's often been the lie around Apple, that they invent and Microsoft steals. I like to tell the story of how Mac scripting software came to be. I was in the audience at a Bill Gates speech in the early 80s in Palo Alto where he described a system-level scripting language for a personal computer, connecting various apps, a spreadsheet, word processor, plotting app. I made a note. That's a good idea. A few years later I started work on such a program. Showed it to Apple. Next thing you know, Apple has this great idea. A system-level scripting language for a personal computer, connecting various apps, a spreadsheet...