Microsoft's Table Computer
See the article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6703249.stm
This looks pretty innovative and original to me. What I'm wondering is: could the open source/free software commnunity have come up with something like that? Or would someone else have to have done it first, for them to then create the open source/free software version? In other words, are they innovators or immitators?

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I got to believe Steve Jobs is foaming at the mouth and threatening to fire everybody for allowing Microsoft to steal Apple's coolness.