Re: [News] Apple Fails to Understand Open Source, Microsoft Brutally Fights It
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ Rick ] on Friday 23 March 2007 02:37 \__
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:14:11 -0700, John A. Bailo wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Apple failing to understand open source
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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that cost
| is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more expensive in
| the long run than Apple realizes.
<http://www.apple.com/opensource/>
Apple is a joke.
Look in the mirror.
Case in point the Apple TV and "set top box".
AppleTV -- Attention, WalMart Shoppers! IT'S A BIG LCD SCREEN! And it
costs 4 times as much as the equivalent no name tv!
Apple SetTop -- $300? These things should be given away free by IPTv
providers. And they sure should run Linux. In the end, that's the way
I think it will be.
Will Apple make money? Of course, there's one born every minute...
.. so the joke is that Apple will make money?
Why are you defending Apple so rigorously? Like many large companies, they
are simply vain. And their actions reflect on that. Just because they make
'cute' devices doesn't make their execs 'cute'. In fact, Jobs was recently
involved in some 'funny business', but being in a position of power, he
managed to escape it.
I am not defending it ... rigorously. Yes, I do defend it at times.
Apple gets slammed for not being a 'proper' OSS citizen, yet even the
KDE developers admitted Apple complied with all licenses. The KDE team
even used Apple patches to make Konqueror Acid2 compliant.
Apple makes consumer products that people like, and it generates profit
for Apple, yet idiots like Bailo blasts Apple for it.
Can Jobs be a megalomanic... oh yes. He has proved that many times, but
he also has a track record of putting together talented teams that he
then pushes to develop products that people like and buy. Yes, I am sick
to death of all the iPod accessories. It aggravates me that webcasts are
improperly called podcasts, but both only show that Apple has marketed a
product that has caught the imagination of consumers.
There is too much you can slam Apple and Jobs for without having to make
things up.
And before I get accused, again, of being an Apple fanboi, please
remember I switched from using the Mac (running OS X) to using Linux.
Would I go back to primarily using Macs? Maybe... if I won the lottery.
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Rick
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