Did Apple bring so much? They took Darwin, made it their own and have given little or nothing back to open source from which it sprang. Yes, Apple OS is good but their is a cost attached to it, the loss of freedom for the user and the community suffers whenever part of it is lopped off and made proprietary. How much better could it be if it followed the open source model? We will never know because Apple is about a dictatorial and controlling as companies come.
Apple gets lots of credit for innovation and, I am not saying they aren't innovative, but they have stolen their fair share of ideas as well. Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Drmgiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:01:43 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] M$ dumps its own stnadard and wants to control ODF? Really I mean what Mac brought to the table as far as technologies go, Windows stole outright and than of course tried to claim it for themselves. Justin Scott wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:05:33PM -0500, Drmgiver wrote: > > "Instead of devloping they just have to muscle control and take over > > making somethng they had nothing to do with their own. Scary." > > > It's what they have always done (i.e. Macintosh), why change now? > > > > Do you mean the way MS took the market share from Mac in the 90's? I > don't think they were using muscle tactics back then. Apple lost it all > by themselves, by being overly arrogant. (They may lose what they have > now in the same way--I see that in CA, there are issues about them > working with AT&T to try to lock people in with the iPhone, as well as > deliberately releasing code to brick unlocked phones.) > > MS gave the people what they wanted, including pre-emptive multi > tasking, which Apple didn't have until OS X. Apple made bad business > decisions, and basically gave it away. > > It was part of what gave MS its present power. > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Cordelia: Hi! You having fun? > Angel: Sure. This is, uh... > Cordelia: Your idea of hell. > Angel: Actually, in hell you tend to know a lot of the people > > __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
