Apple had long run itself like the pre-PC era's IBM did....proprietory h/w
and s/w. From the very beginning Apple's lincensing policies have worked
against it. Which is perhaps why the Mac has come to have only a niche
market in the world today. Much of its apps still come from the MS stables.
Apple under Jobs seems to realise that the only way to hold on to its
dwindling marketshare and attempt a turn-around operation only by roping in
the OS-developers, which is why they have amended their license recently
(agreed that its not GPL) and released parts of the MacOS X...particularly
Darwin. So that developers can develop Mac-friendly servers on virtually
any hardware platform. Incidentally, Darwin includes a realtime kernel.
But given the present circumstances, it seems rather doubtful whether
Apple's efforts will be able to gather enough momentum, with Linux enjoying
the mindshare of the open-source community....The enthusiasm with which its
announcements have been greeted is no where near the heady atmosphere that
created when Netscape first annouced Mozilla. Its remains to be seen what
will be the ultimate outcome...but it may have been too little and too
late.
--Indra.
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From: Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] OFF-TOPIC : Microsoft Worth
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 5:00 AM
> Apple has released much
> open-source products, but differ from Microsoft only in success, not
> philosophy.
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