On Oct 4, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm well aware that they contribute some things to open source, under > licenses that let them sleep at night. It is entirely within their right to > make vertical contributions to particular open source projects, and yet reap > broad benefit from open source projects. How many tons has the open source > community provided that Apple has benefited from?
I've been retired from the World of University Computing since 2003 and away from this whole Academic argument over the FSF, so l will simply say this.: The Open Source Community has shot its wad. Their day is over. Unix and its derivative Linux are dead meat. I was watching them die before I retired. BSD ended in 1995. Linus divorced himself from attempts by Stallman to call LInux ... GNU/Linux, in the late 1990s. Were it not for the direct support of Corporate entities, including Apple and Microsoft, the Open Source folks would have no budgets. Were it not for Stallman, there would be no "open source movement." When he is gone, so will the movement be gone. What Stallman calls "Open Source" never existed except in his mind. It was a myth of the ARPAnet days.... when everything was funded by the Department of Defence. Nothing was "free." Everything belonged to the DOD. Code was shared around because you needed a DOD contract to have an account on the ARPAnet, and everybody knew everybody else. The entire list of authorized ARPAnet uses in those days numbered in the hundreds. The directory was less than a quarter of an inch thick. As the ARPAnet grew and morphed into NSFnet and merged with BITNET to create the modern Internet, people yearned for the open and "free computing" days of the ARPAnet. But with the end of the NSFnet, networking was no longer "free." The Federal Government was no longer paying the bills. The World change in 1995. The NSFnet's Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) saw to that. Stallman has hated Steve Jobs as long as I can remember. It was Stallman who, when asked about the death of Steve Jobs, said "I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone". From Stallman's personal blog: “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.” Such is the dogma behind the Open Source movement today. Anonymous and similar groups have assured its death. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.8.2 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV6-7) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
