On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Mine does. My desktop is far far far more usable than any other > > desktop. Not just for me, but for the absolute newbie as well. It > > looks good too. > > Are you running a Macintosh?? :)
I may not have enough fingers to run emacs, but I do have enough to use a three button mouse. > > If the Mac OS X guys would be so kind as to release their source > code > > instead of simply taking open source tools and using them... > > Theres a difference, how do you think a company would sustain growth > without making money? Where did I say that they should give away freebies? They are well within their right to sell their software, but they should also provide a means for licenced users of their software to procure the source code at no *extra* cost. What this means, is that if I buy - pay money for - Mac OS X, then, I should be entitled to the source code as well, and Apple should give it to me at no additional charge, except media, shipping and handling. If however, I do not own a licence for Mac OS X, and if I want the source code, I will have to pay the full price of Mac OS X in order to get it, but I also get the binary. This is one of the freedoms provided by the GPL. Unfortunately, XFree86 isn't released under the GPL, and now Mono will be released under an X like licence. > Some how I can't bring myself to belive that Open Source can fill up > stomachs. > And even if it did, then the magnitude to which it would have if it > had been closed source is too low. Having a 12 course meal at the expense of hurting hundreds and thousands of other people may be fine with you, but most of us have a concience. I'd rather eat wada pav. > About the Mac OS X guys, well in return for using the open source > tools, they have opened up their modifications/innovations to the Mach > kernel, use it... Mach is a microkernel developed at CMU. The Hurd is already around for us to use - based on Mach. Last I heard, the Macintosh had a monolithic kernel, but that was a long time ago. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
