Greeting cards? I guess they could use it to generate advertising but it seems a bit of a stretch to me.
I haven't gotten the impression so far that it will be advertising based. More of a way to get the average consumer say Joe Six Pack and his wife Ethel to visit. For instance Joe and Ethel, who just recnetly purchased their first PC, can't use it either becuase it doesn't work or they can't get it to work with an unamed OS. But you see Ethel, when she can get online, loves to send her sister Marge "e-cards". If Apple can get Ethel to visit iCards and register to send Marge "quailty greeting cards". What kind of computer do you think Joe and Ethel are going to get next?;)
As far as some of the familar cli tools, ftp, telnet, ping, possibly Perl and GNU tools will be their. If you check out http://www.apple.com/macosx and check out the "Core" section it basicly says that Apache will ship installed (or optionally anyway) on every system, I assume to replace the current MacOS Personal Web Sharing. That's a pretty powerful replacement!
I wasn't under the impression in this article that he was passing off Linux or other OSS as his creation or that the only way to implement these technologies was through him or his company. He's providing "Value Added" service to his clients. Granted Linux and other OSS is free monetarily, but if a given organization doesn't have the resources or desires to administer or setup this software and hardware then he's providing them a "service" by doing so. Which he has every right to charge for. I don't think that conflicts with the Open Source initative. In many cases if it were an NT or even a Novell deployment the school or company would not only have to pay for the "service" of having it installed and maintained but the liscenses (that's the kicker!). You could have a school or company full of guru's but if you want NT or Novell your going to have to pay in most cases based on every single user, client, or server you have. This is where Linux really shines in comparision (financially speaking, technology not withstanding...). The article also mentions that his company contribed some software/code for firewalls that certainly follows the open source initative. So "Totally" to you may me one thing, but "Totally" may not be important or reasonable for others.
If the IBM motherboard is CHRP compliant. Then whether the PPC chip is from IBM or Motorola shouldn't matter. It would be similar to a socket 7 motherboard in the wintel world. You can put a Intel, AMD, or Cyrix chip in as long as its a socket 7 chip...
If my understanding of AltiVec is correct, it (AltiVec) by itself won't do much. Unless Linux (or MacOS, or DarwinOS, etc) takes advantage of it.
I have to agree with you to some degree on this, Apple has been historically bad when it comes to product roadmaps (not that any OS company has really stolen the show in this regard) especially with Rhapsody/YellowBox/MacOS X. However in fairness to Apple (and its developers) I think this years WWDC will help firm up the "Apple Roadmap". This will be the first WWDC in a long time that Apple will have a real tangible OS solution on the market, and in developers/users hands prior to the WWDC opening. Whereas in the past its been questions, questions, questions coming in and charts, graphs, promises, and more questions coming out. So with a real product going in I expect there will be some real answers coming out, not only about MacOS X server/consumer but also about Darwin.
One thing I would like to see is for Apple to open up the WWDC more. With this emphasis on community development it would be great to see WWDC more accessable. I know that last year some of the keynotes/presentations were webcast and the slide visuals from all the presentations were avalible online after the fact. However a lot of the slides were meaningless without hearing the presentation.
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Greeting cards? I guess they could use it to generate advertising but it seems a bit of a stretch to me.
;)
I haven't gotten the impression so far that it will be advertising based. More of a way to get the average consumer say Joe Six Pack and his wife Ethel to visit. For instance Joe and Ethel, who just recnetly purchased their first PC, can't use it either becuase it doesn't work or they can't get it to work with an unamed OS. But you see Ethel, when she can get online, loves to send her sister Marge "e-cards". If Apple can get Ethel to visit iCards and register to send Marge "quailty greeting cards". What kind of computer do you think Joe and Ethel are going to get next?
As far as some of the familar cli tools, ftp, telnet, ping, possibly Perl and GNU tools will be their. If you check out http://www.apple.com/macosx and check out the "Core" section it basicly says that Apache will ship installed (or optionally anyway) on every system, I assume to replace the current MacOS Personal Web Sharing. That's a pretty powerful replacement!
I wasn't under the impression in this article that he was passing off Linux or other OSS as his creation or that the only way to implement these technologies was through him or his company. He's providing "Value Added" service to his clients. Granted Linux and other OSS is free monetarily, but if a given organization doesn't have the resources or desires to administer or setup this software and hardware then he's providing them a "service" by doing so. Which he has every right to charge for. I don't think that conflicts with the Open Source initative. In many cases if it were an NT or even a Novell deployment the school or company would not only have to pay for the "service" of having it installed and maintained but the liscenses (that's the kicker!). You could have a school or company full of guru's but if you want NT or Novell your going to have to pay in most cases based on every single user, client, or server you have. This is where Linux really shines in comparision (financially speaking, technology not withstanding...). The article also mentions that his company contribed some software/code for firewalls that certainly follows the open source initative. So "Totally" to you may me one thing, but "Totally" may not be important or reasonable for others.
If the IBM motherboard is CHRP compliant. Then whether the PPC chip is from IBM or Motorola shouldn't matter. It would be similar to a socket 7 motherboard in the wintel world. You can put a Intel, AMD, or Cyrix chip in as long as its a socket 7 chip...
If my understanding of AltiVec is correct, it (AltiVec) by itself won't do much. Unless Linux (or MacOS, or DarwinOS, etc) takes advantage of it.
I have to agree with you to some degree on this, Apple has been historically bad when it comes to product roadmaps (not that any OS company has really stolen the show in this regard) especially with Rhapsody/YellowBox/MacOS X. However in fairness to Apple (and its developers) I think this years WWDC will help firm up the "Apple Roadmap". This will be the first WWDC in a long time that Apple will have a real tangible OS solution on the market, and in developers/users hands prior to the WWDC opening. Whereas in the past its been questions, questions, questions coming in and charts, graphs, promises, and more questions coming out. So with a real product going in I expect there will be some real answers coming out, not only about MacOS X server/consumer but also about Darwin.
One thing I would like to see is for Apple to open up the WWDC more. With this emphasis on community development it would be great to see WWDC more accessable. I know that last year some of the keynotes/presentations were webcast and the slide visuals from all the presentations were avalible online after the fact. However a lot of the slides were meaningless without hearing the presentation.