I didn't equate RMS and anyone, I was merely pointing out to the previous poster that just becuase someone has a strongly held belief it does not make that belief any more or less valid for anyone else.
Well, I don't agree with Stalin's political agenda, but you do have to respect the man for sticking to his guns and principals...
..hmm... Well, I don't agree with Mao's political... hmm..
Nope RMS is way off his rocker most of the time trying to imply there is a moral dimension in software licensing, reguardless of how feverently he belives it.
Why does anyone who isn't an Apple employee have any interest in whether apple contines along these lines or not... it's not like anyone who doesn't run Apple hardware is going to get any benefit from Open Source advancements to the MacOS.
Tom is one of the primary reasons I have switched to Python
Silly me, I choose a language based on its suitablilty to get the job done. D'oh, I should be basing my choice on the personality of my creators. Another lesson learned from/.
"Apple is closed and proprietary," they keep telling us, as Apple-developed technologies are incorporated into vendor-neutral standards like IEEE 1394 and future versions of MPEG. Oh you mean apple is going to not require licence fees for the portions of its patented QT software that make it into MPEG-4?
Apple is closed and proprietary," we keep hearing as Apple further incorporates standards and changes not-invented-here into their products...like USB and PC-style monitor connections. Or builds a case that with one finger fully reveals the system's internals. Huh? I don't think anyone complaining about apple being closed meant that their cases were hard to open.
"Apple is closed and proprietary," they tell us, as Apple adopts a UNIX variant as the core of their OS, and makes its deepest internals accessible through open source distribution. Internals that were already open sourced. Big fat deal.
The only things closed here and certain people's minds. Yes, Apple spent quite a few years there in the middle totally full of themselves and blind to the world. But then they grew up. Oh yes, that would be the day they killed the clone market...
Think different? I'd settle for apple supporters who just can think.
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I didn't equate RMS and anyone, I was merely pointing out to the previous poster that just becuase someone has a strongly held belief it does not make that belief any more or less valid for anyone else.
Well, I don't agree with Stalin's political agenda, but you do have to respect the man for sticking to his guns and principals...
..hmm... Well, I don't agree with Mao's political... hmm..
Nope RMS is way off his rocker most of the time trying to imply there is a moral dimension in software licensing, reguardless of how feverently he belives it.
There are, what, 50,000,000 windows users? Obviously the licence doesn't both them.
Hell, why don't they set up a Warez.lycos.com too? And p0rn.lycos.com? That will really get people there...
Who cares that 80% go with the defaults? Why make life easier for the stupid and / or lazy?
Seems more like an example of how you can make money writing books to me.
Um, I don't see the word free in it... it is called the New Copyleft License.
Why does anyone who isn't an Apple employee have any interest in whether apple contines along these lines or not... it's not like anyone who doesn't run Apple hardware is going to get any benefit from Open Source advancements to the MacOS.
Tom is one of the primary reasons I have switched to Python
Silly me, I choose a language based on its suitablilty to get the job done. D'oh, I should be basing my choice on the personality of my creators. Another lesson learned from
"Apple is closed and proprietary," they keep telling us, as Apple-developed technologies are incorporated into vendor-neutral standards like IEEE 1394 and future versions of MPEG.
Oh you mean apple is going to not require licence fees for the portions of its patented QT software that make it into MPEG-4?
Apple is closed and proprietary," we keep hearing as Apple further incorporates standards and changes not-invented-here into their products...like USB and PC-style monitor connections. Or builds a case that with one finger fully reveals the system's internals.
Huh? I don't think anyone complaining about apple being closed meant that their cases were hard to open.
"Apple is closed and proprietary," they tell us, as Apple adopts a UNIX variant as the core of their OS, and makes its deepest internals accessible through open source distribution.
Internals that were already open sourced. Big fat deal.
The only things closed here and certain people's minds. Yes, Apple spent quite a few years there in the middle totally full of themselves and blind to the world. But then they grew up.
Oh yes, that would be the day they killed the clone market...
Think different? I'd settle for apple supporters who just can think.
Anyway, it's gotta be aggravating that HURD (or
whatever it's called) has been outrun so quickly.
Quickly?!? I've read interviews with RMS where he is talking about the GNU kernel as far back as 1983!
How so? Or are you just a misogynist?
How so? Or are you just a mysoginist?