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Re: Apple is Miseducation, Delusion, Aggression

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____/ Mark Dodel on Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 19:31 : \____

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:32:02 UTC, Kari Laine <karitlaine@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> -> On the other hand my suspicion for Apple are deeply rooted.
> ->
> -> 1a. It is proprietary.
> 
> True enough.  But it works and has built up significant support over
> the past few years.  In addition Apple doesn't make itself
> incompatible with open source.  Hell CUPS is owned by Apple.
> 
> -> 1b. Microsoft financed them back few years so that they won't go out of
> -> business.
> 
> That was so M$FT could point to Apple as a competitor that still
> existed during one of their Antitrust monopoly trials.
> 
> -> 2. Steve don't want to compete with MS head on - which might be wise.
> 
> He had been shafted by the thieves at M$ before.  No point in playing
> that game any more.  Besides Apple makes a healthy margin off of their
> highend focus  No need to compete for the lowend.
> 
> -> 3. Steve took whole BSD kernel for free and Apple does not exactly give
> -> much back. Or if someone knows otherwise please tell.
> 
> There was Darwin, but I think that is dead.  And as noted above there
> is CUPS.  I don't know of anything else.
> 
> -> 4. newest is this Nortel patent deal. Consortium includes both Microsoft
> -> and Apple....
> 
> That consotium keeps any of its members from suing each other over
> patents.  Time will tell if they succumb to M$'s extortion like it
> does with Android now and start harrassing non-members.
> 
> Mark

AFAIK, Apple also resorted to this when its Hubris took over decades ago. It tried patent
lawsuit (now suing its supplier, Samsung).

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