Apple could easily be gone in ten years, but there will be a continuity of Open Source software until the next ice age.
So worry about that in 10 years and provide the best OS in the meantime. It's not as if they couldn't switch to Linux later if Apple comes upon hard times. Until then, they need to adopt a user-centric priority system instead of a manufacturer-centric one. Sticking with Open Source helps them, not the users. If they are truly committed to having these devices be widely adopted and bring the internet to the whole world, then the most user-friendly free OS should be selected.
Or, when you consider the invaluable lesson she'll be teaching her kids about standing up for what is right, you could take the point of view that she and her kids have an awful lot to gain.
As the developer of BBEdit, how would you record this? There are a dozen different ways that BBEdit could interpret a user highlighting a word. Yes, the user might mean he wants word 1 of line 43, but he might want to highlight the word "However" when it appeared at the beginning of a line. Or he may want the first word of the 5th displayed sentence. Or all words starting with a capital "H". Or words containing the string "wev". Or the 150th word of the document.
And if BBEdit dared get the script wrong, you can be sure users would be screaming bloody murder and comparing it to the Newton.
Private investment and innovation in space technology is something NASA definitely needs to encourage rather than trample on in the years ahead.
The rush to take the government out of everything ignores how many great achievements throughout history never would have happened without government sponsorship. Erik the Red, Columbus, Balboa...all government sponsored. Goddard developing the liquid-fuelled rocket? Significant government (and university) sponsorship. Breaking the sound barrier? Government. And of course the Apollo moon landings and the existence of the HST...no private organization would ever have accomplished those, for there was no profit in any of them.
Everyone's rush to privatize things always seems to ignore how much poorer we'd be without government sponsorship of exploration. I sure don't want to live in a world where we only do anything because it's profitable. When endeavors naturally become commodities (automobiles, flight, etc.), then privatization makes sense in order to encourage reliability and cost containment. But when we're in the initial stages, which we definitely still are with space, the government plays a crucial role.
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Or, when you consider the invaluable lesson she'll be teaching her kids about standing up for what is right, you could take the point of view that she and her kids have an awful lot to gain.
As the developer of BBEdit, how would you record this? There are a dozen different ways that BBEdit could interpret a user highlighting a word. Yes, the user might mean he wants word 1 of line 43, but he might want to highlight the word "However" when it appeared at the beginning of a line. Or he may want the first word of the 5th displayed sentence. Or all words starting with a capital "H". Or words containing the string "wev". Or the 150th word of the document.
And if BBEdit dared get the script wrong, you can be sure users would be screaming bloody murder and comparing it to the Newton.
-Kurt
The rush to take the government out of everything ignores how many great achievements throughout history never would have happened without government sponsorship. Erik the Red, Columbus, Balboa...all government sponsored. Goddard developing the liquid-fuelled rocket? Significant government (and university) sponsorship. Breaking the sound barrier? Government. And of course the Apollo moon landings and the existence of the HST...no private organization would ever have accomplished those, for there was no profit in any of them.
Everyone's rush to privatize things always seems to ignore how much poorer we'd be without government sponsorship of exploration. I sure don't want to live in a world where we only do anything because it's profitable. When endeavors naturally become commodities (automobiles, flight, etc.), then privatization makes sense in order to encourage reliability and cost containment. But when we're in the initial stages, which we definitely still are with space, the government plays a crucial role.
-Kurt