So Apple's lawyers are doing their job. What's the point of throwing a fit? Lawyers quibble about minutia, especially with regrard to intellectual property.
While I think this theme thing is overboard and unnecessary, it has nothing to do with Apple's other employees, such as those working on Darwin and other open source projects.
And as for Apple "taking and not receiving" from the open source community, please help define what Apple has taken. Here is what they've given:
1) Support (pre-Darwin) toward the open development of Mk based linux on their hardware AND i386. Commercial benefit to Apple: marginal; academic goodwill.
2) Darwin in general: open, real and both PPC and i386. Benefits developers working on low level MacOS X projects like VPC or drivers and such. Commercial benefit to Apple: marginal; happier developers, goodwill.
3) netInfo. Apple handed its NIS++ technology directly to developers for free. They stand to gain little commercially.
4) QSS. Apple commercial benefit: they lose some PPC hardware sales to Linux servers and dedicated network gear.
5) OpenPlay/NetSprockets. Perfect example of technology a company sits on, and should open up for others to use. Apple did. Their commercial benefit: Hay.
If you've contributed anything at all to the Darwin project, I'd like to know about it. Otherwise, shut up already.
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So Apple's lawyers are doing their job. What's the point of throwing a fit? Lawyers quibble about minutia, especially with regrard to intellectual property.
While I think this theme thing is overboard and unnecessary, it has nothing to do with Apple's other employees, such as those working on Darwin and other open source projects.
And as for Apple "taking and not receiving" from the open source community, please help define what Apple has taken. Here is what they've given:
1) Support (pre-Darwin) toward the open development of Mk based linux on their hardware AND i386. Commercial benefit to Apple: marginal; academic goodwill.
2) Darwin in general: open, real and both PPC and i386. Benefits developers working on low level MacOS X projects like VPC or drivers and such. Commercial benefit to Apple: marginal; happier developers, goodwill.
3) netInfo. Apple handed its NIS++ technology directly to developers for free. They stand to gain little commercially.
4) QSS. Apple commercial benefit: they lose some PPC hardware sales to Linux servers and dedicated network gear.
5) OpenPlay/NetSprockets. Perfect example of technology a company sits on, and should open up for others to use. Apple did. Their commercial benefit: Hay.
If you've contributed anything at all to the Darwin project, I'd like to know about it. Otherwise, shut up already.
Tondog
The Treasure Island Experiment
http://www.tiexp.com
reality based entertainment