After watching a short video about how Windows 7 is copying Apple I got a little mad. It seems that when ever Apple does something people think that they just came up with it all by themselves, and its never been done before.

Multitouch has been worked on for many years by several different companies. Microsoft has had the Microsoft Surface prototype in development for years, and showed mature demos in early 2007.

I am not saying that Microsoft is innocent, just that neither is Apple or Linux. The point is that software only improves by taking things that work and improving on them. If no one was allowed to copy anything we would never make any progress in any field.

Can you imagine if you could patent an equation in Mathmatics? Then no one could use your equation to solve more complex problems in the future. Where would we be today? Probably still working with basic algebra.

*End Rant*