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Is Apple The New Microsoft?
Varg Vikernes writes "Even if you don't count Apple's actions this week as a potential threat to first amendment rights (Apple's crackdown on Web sites that love the company), they do nothing to bolster Apple's public image. In fact the company's success of late has yielded accusations of bullying and potentially unlawful business tactics, along with complaints about the fact that songs purchased from its iTunes music service don't work with music players other than its own. According to Forbes, to some these tactics sound like something Apple's neighbor to the North might employ. They wonder aloud Is Apple the New Microsoft?
That apple is mainly suing websites that have had "leaked" information on them, e.g. information about new models coming out etc that could be considered trade secrets before the models are actually put on the market...
.. what does this make of Microsoft? are they now the new Apple? :)
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/index10.htm#XEROX 5. 1990 - XEROX Sued APPLE Someone put this in a search engine to come across this site "how steve jobs stole xerox ideas to include in the macintosh" XEROX sues Apple in 1990 (XEROX lost) The way I understand it - The GUI have been around since the fifties, and was developed even more by XEROX. Apple devolped it more in the Apple Lisa and Macintosh. XEROX later sued Apple, but XEROX lost in court. Only Apple knows that answer, about what they got from XEROX for a couple days in 1983 for 18 million dollars in Apple stock. (XEROX wanted to buy Apple stock , 1 million dollars in pre IPO stock, ended up being worth 18 million net, for XEROX) and XEROX let Apple tour their lab for a few days. At XEROX the COMPANY SUITS were for it, but the LAB PEOPLE objected. Not exactly a smart thing for XEROX to do. About this time, XEROX also let Bill Gates tour their lab (Gates was writing software for the Apple at that time). It should be noted that Apple hired several XEROX employees a short time after visting XEROX. The question remains who the pirate?
GCC, KHTML (Konqueror web browser), et al are NOT benefiting from apple fixes.
As countless previous posters have already proven and posted and as countless project maintainers to the above projects have already said, apple changes are useless and cannot be put back into the main project. They mangle the code.
Also, the first part of your post is just silly. iPod doesn't play MP3's without first going through iTunes. So telling me that iTunes and iPod aren't closely tied is just plain RIDICULOUS. you simply cannnot install mp3's into your iPod without iTunes the program (unless you use a hacked program to load them in)
Your ignorance is infinitely greater than you realize.