Every time a possible infringement against the GPL appears on Slashdot, the whole community is up in arms. You can't have it both ways folks. You can disagree with IP law (as I do), but it's childish to whine about Apple's use of it, they have created an original work (truly original) and can licence it however they see fit. Beating Apple up for refusing to give their designs away is stupid, it's essentially whining because Apple isn't handing out free beer.
BTW, I'm surprised that the KDE folks have gotten away with blatent rip-offs for so long, it's tacky and it's part of the reason I've always chosen GNOME.
It's worth adding that MS has in the past discussed plans for bogus public relations campaigns. Now they're backed into a corner, it's totally reasonable that they'd want to justify the GUID in the public arena before it bites them in the ass in court. MS aren't dumb people, just hopelessly out of touch, reminds me of Apple a few years ago.
Uh, no. NeXT is a company that has been operating and providing Unix support for well over ten years. Apple's support of AIX on PowerPC machines and AUX on 68k machines alone establish them as a UNIX vendor with deeper roots than most people are willing to believe.
It amazes me that much of the Open Source community is so hostile towards Apple. Much of the flameage is exactly the same as one would hear from some dumbass M$ apologist. While Apple PR is clearly trying to cash in quick on some of this open source hype, their OS is based on OSS and they (as NeXT) have been active in the open source community long before most slashdot readers (average age: 20). Just look at Avie's work on mach for one.
Then again, if you want to be ignorant and angry, that's your problem. You're probably running code written and paid for by NeXT right now if you're running an open source OS.
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BTW, I'm surprised that the KDE folks have gotten away with blatent rip-offs for so long, it's tacky and it's part of the reason I've always chosen GNOME.
It's worth adding that MS has in the past discussed plans for bogus public relations campaigns. Now they're backed into a corner, it's totally reasonable that they'd want to justify the GUID in the public arena before it bites them in the ass in court. MS aren't dumb people, just hopelessly out of touch, reminds me of Apple a few years ago.
Uh, no. NeXT is a company that has been operating and providing Unix support for well over ten years. Apple's support of AIX on PowerPC machines and AUX on 68k machines alone establish them as a UNIX vendor with deeper roots than most people are willing to believe.
It amazes me that much of the Open Source community is so hostile towards Apple. Much of the flameage is exactly the same as one would hear from some dumbass M$ apologist. While Apple PR is clearly trying to cash in quick on some of this open source hype, their OS is based on OSS and they (as NeXT) have been active in the open source community long before most slashdot readers (average age: 20). Just look at Avie's work on mach for one.
Then again, if you want to be ignorant and angry, that's your problem. You're probably running code written and paid for by NeXT right now if you're running an open source OS.