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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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