why Unix?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:12:07 +0200, Ralf Schneider wrote:

>> Well at least you've got to make up your mind. It's amazing how you
>> mention instability in three instances and stagnation in two instances,
>> without ever noticing the irony. What's happening?
> 
> Instability: Red hat crashes most often. AIX, Solaris and HP-UX just
> run. Windows crashes sometimes. (Very personal observation, of course)
> 
> Instable APIs: POSIX is stable. Most other *NIX APIs regarding Audio,
> GUI, Graphics and others are constantly changing, with very little
> visible progress. What is not covered by POSIX is different on ever Unix
> flavour: Hot do you get the peak virtual memory usage on AIX, Linux and
> Solaris?
> Windows: APIs are usually stable. New APIs with new concepts are
> introduced beside existsing APIs. Yes there is a lot of cruft. And
> windows is defintetly not "perfect"!!! In no way! It just sucks less
> (TM)
> 
> Stagnation: On *NIX: same (command line) tools, same concepts
> (everything is a file) as decades ago. New ideas are usually copied
> badly from Apple or Windows years later.
> 
> So, again: As a desktop and programming environment I prefer Windows.
> May be I would prefer OS X if I knew it.
> 
> As a server: I would use and suggest UNIX. May be even Red Hat is OK and
> the crashes we experience is a temporary problem and are hardware
> related.

The only thing I'm interested in is, what new ideas are badly copied from 
Apple and _Microsoft_?