The penguin already won, as a LONG time Mac developer, since the inception of it, and also that of NeXTStep and its incarnations, without doubt the benefits of Linux FAR outweight that of OSX. OSX coupled with the fact that Steve continues to mislead and misguide the masses, along with M$, Linux is with its software tools very attractive to a broad creative mind like a software artist/developer. OSX was NS/OS, and had a niche market smaller than OSX does today, and that market will NOT grow, only shrink as folks find that not only complete opensource tools are available, readily, but free or almost free and getting easier with each iteration to install, use and capitalize. OSX is a deadend, and slow, slow and even slower to deploy, develop and make money with, respectively. As a developer with 12+ years experience with NS/OS and OSX, I have recently given up complete hope of anything original and revolutionary coming from Apple, period.
I give it a week at most in the public domain or GPL domain and the source tree will become EXTREMELY bloated very, very quickly. THat is the way of free open source projects, prove it otherwise, this move is the DEATH of slim-trim source.
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The penguin already won, as a LONG time Mac developer, since the inception of it, and also that of NeXTStep and its incarnations, without doubt the benefits of Linux FAR outweight that of OSX. OSX coupled with the fact that Steve continues to mislead and misguide the masses, along with M$, Linux is with its software tools very attractive to a broad creative mind like a software artist/developer. OSX was NS/OS, and had a niche market smaller than OSX does today, and that market will NOT grow, only shrink as folks find that not only complete opensource tools are available, readily, but free or almost free and getting easier with each iteration to install, use and capitalize. OSX is a deadend, and slow, slow and even slower to deploy, develop and make money with, respectively. As a developer with 12+ years experience with NS/OS and OSX, I have recently given up complete hope of anything original and revolutionary coming from Apple, period.
I give it a week at most in the public domain or GPL domain and the source tree will become EXTREMELY bloated very, very quickly. THat is the way of free open source projects, prove it otherwise, this move is the DEATH of slim-trim source.