Panther Analysis Getting Underway

Durin_Deathless writes "Think Secret has posted their first article analyzing the changes from Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.3. In this first installment, they look at the changes to the Installation, System Requirements, the Finder, and some other things. They have some nice images available too."

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Re:Don't forget that it's patented.

[Surak]

You get to complain about apples support of open source the day you create the second most popular operating system in the world, and then choose to open source it!

Mac OS X isn't open source. Darwin is. There's a *very* large difference.

There are more computers out there running OS X than Linux, and if Apple hadn't decided to pay more than lipservice to open source, that wouldn't be the case.

No, there are more Macintoshes out there. I doubt very much that there are more computers running OS X. Besides, if having more users meant that they were better somehow, nobody would be complaining about Microsoft.

After their technology was stolen from them for 20 years, they decided to start protecting it. Good for them.

Do you know why the 'trash can' in Windows is called the 'recycle bin'? Because Apple patented the trash can icon, sued Microsoft and won. This was, in fact, almost 20 years ago.

Open source isn't about pirating technology- it is about the creators of innovations freely sharing that technology.

Which Apple clearly ISN'T doing with Expose, or with major portions of OS X.

Hell, if Apple had been awarded the patent they'd applie for way back when, we wouldn't have the Microsoft goliath making our lives miserable today.

They *did* get the look and feel patent, and it was upheld by the court, they just lost the case in court because the judge felt that Microsoft's GUI was different enough from Apple's. Go figure.

(And if you think Apple is just as bad, or worse than Microsoft, your living in your own reality distortion field.)

No, I don't. But I think that Mac fanboys give Apple wayyy more credit than they deserve. Apple is a good company. They are one of the good guys, for the most part. But if you think that for one minute that their goal with Mac OS X was *anything* except to capitalize on and commercialize the success of open source development and take financial advantage of the Linux movement, then *you* are the one living in your own reality distortion field.