Let him have it his way. Using Golden Eagle's logic there could be no more software patents and no more copyrights. Because nobody acually creates anything, it's all learned from somewhere else.
This means Microsoft hasn't created anything either. After all, everyone who has ever worked for them went to school. Read Books. Studied other people's code. It's all so dirty!
Everyone who ever learned something from somewhere else is unable to exclusively claim ownership of invention.
Damn, Golden Eagle! You're quite the little commie!
I think you know you got that one wrong, LOL! I just don't see what the big deal is, very few operating systems were independently created, yet the Linux crowd has an aneurysm over admitting Linux is based on Unix, Posix, Minix, whatever. It obviously was, even Torvalds admits it, so you're right about one (1) thing, definitely time to move on!