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Apple and the Open Source Community
Dozix007 writes "Sitepoint reports an interesting article on the increasing interconnection between Apple's recently released Tiger, and the open source community. Tiger includes improved releases of Apple's directory services (LDAP), secure authentication (Kerberos), mail server (Postfix), web server (Apache) and many more features, nearly all based on existing open source software. Most significant may be the release of Rendezvous for Java, Linux/Unix and Windows. This is a zero-configuration tool for networking that includes network protocols, identification and configuration of devices and services such as printers and local/remote servers, and was based on open source technology."
Microsoft has also loved open source. As long as it's under the BSD license...
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan
Totally!
Just the other day my mum was saying "I would really like a consumer UNIX satisfactory to both end and power users that is capable of running POSIX and most Linux-targeted software without modification, just compile and it runs".
And I said "d000000d, where have you been. Get a Mac! This is a major coup, and it surprises me people don't see this!"
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
You are truly my hero. You've just compared Apple to Jesus Christ.
[i] If someone had come on slashdot 10 years ago[/i] wouldn't they have gotten a "server not found" error?
Pi?
But it is getting harder to argue against them every day.
I see you haven't been introduced to the joys of BitTorrent :)
There are 10 types of people in the world--those who understand binary, and those who don't.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
Heh, and the Konfabulator people, Watson folks, et al., might've something to contribute to that discussion as well.
That's nice--but what do Lake and Palmer think about all this?
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You've apparently confused capitalism and plutocracy. I like the potential segue into calling someone who disagrees with those laws a Communist, though. Thinking a couple of moves ahead like that is essential to good trolling.
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omg F 9-11 are teh expose keys on a mac!~~!~~! it is teh SUPAR COINCEDANCE!!!!ONETILDE
...I mean, one is a religion, the other is some bloke who lived 2000 years ago.
Kjella
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You forgot to mention that we're also all gay filmmakers and musicians who only buy Apples because they match our decor.
*hides wife, Unix books, old Linux box, and lack of artistic ability behind shiney Mac* Nothing to see here, move along...