The subject says it all, but to add, I cannot think of a macintosh line (68k, ppc, intel) that hasn't had lots of problems within the first year or two, and several revisions.
You're forgetting one important thing! The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field (RDF). This particular device is very good at distorting reality to turn crap into gold. Once exposed to the RDF, a person will unknowingly be willing to spend twice as much for a product of the same or lesser quality than one from another manufacturer.
I'm not sure what the long term goal of Steve Jobs and his RDF is, but I can tell you that I for one, don't like it!:)
This is a perfect example of the problem with BSD licencing. Under the various BSD licences, its perfectly OK to take a piece of code and sell it, either modified or exactly as found, without in any way recognising or contrubuting to the project.
Companies would not like that license for their own code, because then competitors could use their code with no restrictions.
Actually you don't know the BSD license that well. When you release software under the terms and conditions of the BSD license, it's not a free for all as you suggest, there are infact, restrictions that you need to comply with otherwise you would loose your right to use the software just as you would if you broke a condition of the GPL.
I.e., consider Joe User took source code from a BSD licensed project, used a module that was part of that project in his own and did not credit the original author (that is to say, include a copyright notice and the terms of conditions and disclaimer in his distribution). Now consider that the same Joe User took a module from a BSD licensed project, and used it in his own without complying to the conditions that he need to redistribute his project's source code. Joe User would be breaking the allowable terms and conditions set forth in both the BSD license and the GPL, it's a no brainer really, Joe User is not permitted to steal BSD code any more than GPL code. Read the BSD license.
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The subject says it all, but to add, I cannot think of a macintosh line (68k, ppc, intel) that hasn't had lots of problems within the first year or two, and several revisions.
You're forgetting one important thing! The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field (RDF). This particular device is very good at distorting reality to turn crap into gold. Once exposed to the RDF, a person will unknowingly be willing to spend twice as much for a product of the same or lesser quality than one from another manufacturer. I'm not sure what the long term goal of Steve Jobs and his RDF is, but I can tell you that I for one, don't like it! :)
You must have missed this page: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Lib rary/fcfb3f7d-b209-4bb8-a1ca-f5259b6d57191033.mspx
Companies would not like that license for their own code, because then competitors could use their code with no restrictions. Actually you don't know the BSD license that well. When you release software under the terms and conditions of the BSD license, it's not a free for all as you suggest, there are infact, restrictions that you need to comply with otherwise you would loose your right to use the software just as you would if you broke a condition of the GPL. I.e., consider Joe User took source code from a BSD licensed project, used a module that was part of that project in his own and did not credit the original author (that is to say, include a copyright notice and the terms of conditions and disclaimer in his distribution). Now consider that the same Joe User took a module from a BSD licensed project, and used it in his own without complying to the conditions that he need to redistribute his project's source code. Joe User would be breaking the allowable terms and conditions set forth in both the BSD license and the GPL, it's a no brainer really, Joe User is not permitted to steal BSD code any more than GPL code. Read the BSD license.