> Apple would gladly be Microsoft in a heartbeat if it could ever get its
> act together - as would most businesses. Let's not start this ridiculous
> holy war.
>
> Samuel Nicolary
>
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, R. Hotchkiss wrote:
>
> > Boy am I happy I use a mac. George Orwell was/is right.
> >
I'm a longtime Mac user and still possess the 3rd 128K Mac in
Philadelphia... (as well as a long time Unix user.)
But Sam is quite correct. Apple is and has always been, far more
proprietary than Microsoft ever was. Jobs penchant for secrecy and
"protectionism" is well known -- remember the clone wars?
Both Gates and Jobs are control-freeks and fierce competitors with each
other, and neither gives a damm about Larry Ellison, despite what Larry
would have you believe.
It's been interesting to watch the two of them over the years.
So far, Jobs is way ahead of Gates with Pixar, but falling behind lately
with Apple. Real dollars have very little to do with the score-keeping --
both have more money than they know what to do with, it's all about
creativity and how to "look open" while still maintaining absolute
(some would say dictitorial) control.
BTW - Forbes has a whole collection of articles on XP, the good, bad and
ugly...
http://www.forbes.com/2001/08/30/0830xpindex.html
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