>Install Ubuntu (or any of about 20 others) with the KDE desktop and you look at it and think "This looks like WIN 7/8/10." MS has been 'stealing' from open source for years.
Phil, in all fairness to Microsoft, the "Windows look and feel" did in fact come out of Microsoft. The Linux desktops copied Windows, not the other way around. This started back in the late nineties, when fvwm (the default Linux window manager) came out with a "Windows 95" version that copied the Start menu and a few other Windows features. KDE and GNOME didn't come until a couple of years after Windows 95 was released.
As for Microsoft "stealing" from open source, I don't think that's a particularly fair statement either. They certainly don't use any open source code, for the simple reason that doing so would force them to open their own code (per the GNU Public License). Interestingly, Microsoft has been a major contributor to the Linux kernel. (Not for altruistic reasons; they've had to contribute a lot of code to get Linux to play with their virtual machine hypervisor, Hyper-V.)
Microsoft is an evil company for sure, but they're not guilty of everything they're accused of.
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