Re: The game is up Microsoft - your code is crap!
Except Linux (and Apple) does it first.
Except when they don't. When Windows NT used NTFS, a journaling file system, Linux used ext2, a non-journaling file system. Apple got Truetype fonts first, followed closely by Windows, but using Truetype on Linux was a PITA a decade ago. See:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/HOWTO/archived/FDU/