Frankly, I'm amused by the way many people will go on and on about the need to set software free, yet will turn around and try to tell companies like Apple exactly how to go about doing that. How can you try to force Apple to do things how you want them done in the name of freedom? Does anyone see the irony here?
Losing the cloners was too bad, but I'd rather have no clones than a dying Apple. Many people, myself included, consider the new (blue & white) G3s to be an excellent value, probably Apple's best price/performance ratio ever. And, while it would be nice to have more choice of Mac hardware, Apple's prices haven't really risen any since cloning died. If anything, they've come down quite a bit (on their high end machines) and a whole hell of a lot on their consumer offering (iMac).
Again with the BeOS comments...I keep seeing this BeOS bullshit pop up after every Apple story. When will people give this one up? It's pretty obvious that Apple doesn't want Be on their hardware and Be doesn't want to waste their time maintaining the PowerPC version of BeOS when Intel is such a bigger opportunity for them.
And, don't forget, FireWire was chosen as an industry standard by the IEEE, which by the way doesn't prevent companies from profitting from these standards. Apple has been charging licensing fees for FireWire all along. The latecomers were asked to pay more, but after they made a stink Apple joined a few other companies in an effort to promote use of FireWire in the industry by creating a licensing program that they all approve of. Check here for more info on that one:
Apple has never claimed that Apache is theirs and theirs only. And they have never claimed that they are the only ones making it a core component of their OS.
Linux people love to brag about all the free software (like Apache) they get with their OS. Why shouldn't Apple do the same?
Why are you mad at Apple? Seems like you should be mad at the Sorenson people for their proprietary technology and exclusive licensing of it. Am I right?
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Frankly, I'm amused by the way many people will go on and on about the need to set software free, yet will turn around and try to tell companies like Apple exactly how to go about doing that. How can you try to force Apple to do things how you want them done in the name of freedom? Does anyone see the irony here?
- StrangeDaze
Losing the cloners was too bad, but I'd rather have no clones than a dying Apple. Many people, myself included, consider the new (blue & white) G3s to be an excellent value, probably Apple's best price/performance ratio ever. And, while it would be nice to have more choice of Mac hardware, Apple's prices haven't really risen any since cloning died. If anything, they've come down quite a bit (on their high end machines) and a whole hell of a lot on their consumer offering (iMac).
Again with the BeOS comments...I keep seeing this BeOS bullshit pop up after every Apple story. When will people give this one up? It's pretty obvious that Apple doesn't want Be on their hardware and Be doesn't want to waste their time maintaining the PowerPC version of BeOS when Intel is such a bigger opportunity for them.
And, don't forget, FireWire was chosen as an industry standard by the IEEE, which by the way doesn't prevent companies from profitting from these standards. Apple has been charging licensing fees for FireWire all along. The latecomers were asked to pay more, but after they made a stink Apple joined a few other companies in an effort to promote use of FireWire in the industry by creating a licensing program that they all approve of. Check here for more info on that one:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,3 2501,00.html
- StrangeDaze
Oh well, I give em 5 more years before they shoot themselves in the head once in for all.
People have been saying that for 20 years...
- StrangeDaze
Apple has never claimed that Apache is theirs and theirs only. And they have never claimed that they are the only ones making it a core component of their OS.
Linux people love to brag about all the free software (like Apache) they get with their OS. Why shouldn't Apple do the same?
- StrangeDaze
Why are you mad at Apple? Seems like you should be mad at the Sorenson people
for their proprietary technology and exclusive licensing of it. Am I right?