Perhaps with OSX I would agree with you. However OS Classic is another story.
Justin Linux Canuck wrote: > > 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] <mailto:drmgiver%40gmail.com>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com> > 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 > <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/
