Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 24, 2013 @03:30AM from the craft-brewed-fair-trade-shade-grown-moka-beans-vs-airline-coffee dept.

jfruh writes "Apple is now offering upgrades to the latest version of OS X for free. When Linux inventor Linus Torvalds was asked whether this threatened Linux (presumably by someone who had only a passing knowledge of all the things 'free' can mean when applied to software) it gave him an opportunity for a passionate defense of open source. Torvalds also says that he'll keep programming until it gets 'not interesting,' which hasn't happened yet." The newest version of OS X may be gratis for Apple hardware buyers, but it's notably far from the original, (literally) un-branded sense of "mavericks."

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Re:the second dose is free by wagnerrp · 2013-10-24 07:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They hold their value because people place move value on them than a simple utility. A PC is for utility. A Mac is a fashion item. The equivalent era Mac is no more capable than the equivalent era PC, considering they're made with the same exact parts.