On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Gary Elshaw wrote:
you've never heard of spin???XonX did all the work and yet Tenon was selling it and XonX held it back.Then this might be of interest: " The beta release of X11 is free of charge, but Apple has yet to announce pricing for the software when it debuts later this year."
Apple broke up Tenon's little scheme by making XFree86 with HW OpenGL free.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981495.html
oh yes, a story from C-Net, the most Mac-friendly place on the net...
they always have such kind words to say about Apple
and they do such unbiased fair reporting about the Mac.
gee, what does PC-Week have to say about it?
how about our friends at LinuxWorld?
you don't seem to get it. dont'cha have any PC friends?
you know the distorted false information they have about the Mac.
the PC-press reports every event at Apple as a tragic misstep or failure.
C-Net is reporting that Apple might charge for it
for the same reason Apple is frightened
that being the only XFree86 platform where HW-OpenGL is payware
will drive people away
let's examine what C-Net said for a moment...
the concept of "pricing" is C-Net's SPECULATIONThe beta release of X11 is free of charge, but Apple has yet to announce pricing for the software when it debuts later this year
solely on the basis that Apple called this release a beta test.
Apple didn't say anything related to pricing.
It's a beta test because Apple's never done anything like this before.
X11 is irrelevant to Apple's OS X strategy which uses the NeXT window server.
Apple just hacked the thing together and it worked...
XonX's port was miraculous because they had to feel their way like Helen Keller.
Apple didn't have the problems XonX had because Apple knows its own system.
They probably had it running already just sitting around for fun
and they gave it to us when they saw a bully in the marketplace.
lenny bruce I am not a comedian,
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