There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.