Be did so because they themselves were originally a hardware vendor, with PPC hardware. It was natural for them to shift over to another PPC hardware platform when they moved away from hardware to become an OS vendor. And Apple was a natural fit. BeOS was a staggering improvement in many regards over classic MacOS on the Apple hardware.
It was somewhat later that they competed with NeXT to be 'the next MacOS' after Apple's engineers proved incapable of producing an inhouse modern OS themselves.
This will give tremendous coverage to these particular ugly women. Their career is made, if they want to, say, model for various fetish websites after this is all over.
I'm glad at least somebody concedes that Apple deliberately kept a competing operating system from working. I doubt if the grandparent commenter would approve of any other hardware vendor introducing system functions that, say, make it impossible to run anything but Windows on their hardware....
It's interesting that one of the main ways that pundits and hangers-on have gotten mileage and benefit out of Linux have been due to 'crisis' situations where 'Linux is at risk.' This goes way back. We have the 'trademark' controversey. I remember a controversey way back where Intel wanted a proprietary I/O API (may be wrong on details) that was gonna shut Linux out of server hardware. The whole SCO controversey. And there are numerous other instances.
Linux plods along, a convergent code base that just continues to grow stronger and better. But gadflies and pundits on the 'fringe' (and what else can journalists, wether pro- or anti-Linux be called?) make their grocery money by stirring the pot. Now we even have a derivative-case, where the 'crisis' is that a 'journalist' (this 'PJ') is the crisis itself, as well as one of the benfactors of the crisis.
The first commercial publisher of a Linux distro on CD-ROM, Yggdrasil, specifically called it LGX, a non-Linux name. I strongly felt at the time that they were trying to name it something they owned. Also, they were more in the 'GNU' spirit than most subsequent Linux distros, in that LGX stands for Linux-Gnu-Xwindow, something that spread the credit for Linux-based OSes far wider and more fairly than most others have since.
It sounds good to say 'the entire senior staff' has resigned, but I can't find mention of more than one 'senior' staffer resigning on the announcement page. Was there more than this one fellow who resigned? There are two names listed as contacts at the bottom of the announcement. Does this mean there were TWP staffers?
The outrageous thing about some of the points in your comment is that Apple specifically DID run several computer companies out of the market telling them they would no longer be allowed to run the MacOS on their hardware. Yet you draw the analogy only to Microsoft, and only as a hypothetical threat that Microsoft MIGHT have done. Whereas Apple actually took said action.
Seems Microsoft might have committed assault. Apple, however, committed murder.
Ol' Walt has been 'pretty screwed' for years now. He's dead, after all. Why a bunch of hangers-on and opportunists should be clinging to his legacy is beyond me.
The public domain might suffice, but let's go back to origins. Would the laser printer company whose proprietary programming interface Stallman wanted access to have been required to disclose it? There's such a thing as trade secrets, too. Unless we're saying there should be no secrecy at all, anywhere.
The kind of person who is going to make a top-dollar purchase for a new Mac is also going to be the kind of person who buys Microsoft Office, various Adobe products, etc. If s/he has bought all the Windows versions of said software, s/he is held captive by said expensive binary licenses.
You're right, though, that the occasional sleezebag who happens to somehow get a Mac might try to call it 'format shifting' and get warez versions of everything.
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Be did so because they themselves were originally a hardware vendor, with PPC hardware. It was natural for them to shift over to another PPC hardware platform when they moved away from hardware to become an OS vendor. And Apple was a natural fit. BeOS was a staggering improvement in many regards over classic MacOS on the Apple hardware.
It was somewhat later that they competed with NeXT to be 'the next MacOS' after Apple's engineers proved incapable of producing an inhouse modern OS themselves.
This will give tremendous coverage to these particular ugly women. Their career is made, if they want to, say, model for various fetish websites after this is all over.
I'm glad at least somebody concedes that Apple deliberately kept a competing operating system from working. I doubt if the grandparent commenter would approve of any other hardware vendor introducing system functions that, say, make it impossible to run anything but Windows on their hardware....
But then when was this a reasonable forum?
It's interesting that one of the main ways that pundits and hangers-on have gotten mileage and benefit out of Linux have been due to 'crisis' situations where 'Linux is at risk.' This goes way back. We have the 'trademark' controversey. I remember a controversey way back where Intel wanted a proprietary I/O API (may be wrong on details) that was gonna shut Linux out of server hardware. The whole SCO controversey. And there are numerous other instances.
Linux plods along, a convergent code base that just continues to grow stronger and better. But gadflies and pundits on the 'fringe' (and what else can journalists, wether pro- or anti-Linux be called?) make their grocery money by stirring the pot. Now we even have a derivative-case, where the 'crisis' is that a 'journalist' (this 'PJ') is the crisis itself, as well as one of the benfactors of the crisis.
Same as it ever was.
The first commercial publisher of a Linux distro on CD-ROM, Yggdrasil, specifically called it LGX, a non-Linux name. I strongly felt at the time that they were trying to name it something they owned. Also, they were more in the 'GNU' spirit than most subsequent Linux distros, in that LGX stands for Linux-Gnu-Xwindow, something that spread the credit for Linux-based OSes far wider and more fairly than most others have since.
(insert TWO in place of TWP in above)
It sounds good to say 'the entire senior staff' has resigned, but I can't find mention of more than one 'senior' staffer resigning on the announcement page. Was there more than this one fellow who resigned? There are two names listed as contacts at the bottom of the announcement. Does this mean there were TWP staffers?
Again, I'll believe it when I see the logs.
So you're still in denial. Or should I pull up emacs and generate the 'logs' you speak of? (iow- wtf would make a 'log' believeable to you?)
Capitalists are about owning the state and monopolies.
You misspelled the word 'Communist', dude.
Well, there we have it. Both remaining TigerDirect customers have responded.
Heh.
TigerDirect is claiming rights to the name 'Tiger'.
Apple is claiming the same rights.
Which party were you ridiculing?
The outrageous thing about some of the points in your comment is that Apple specifically DID run several computer companies out of the market telling them they would no longer be allowed to run the MacOS on their hardware. Yet you draw the analogy only to Microsoft, and only as a hypothetical threat that Microsoft MIGHT have done. Whereas Apple actually took said action.
Seems Microsoft might have committed assault. Apple, however, committed murder.
Actually, all OLDER distros should, but one gets nervous about 'modern' distros...
Now, if Apple forced other companies who made PPC board to ship the Mac OS, then maybe it would be similar.
Apple drove THOSE folks completely out of the market by deliberately preventing them from producing hardware that would run the Mac OS.
Umm, that doesn't weaken your arguement, but it strongly reflects on what kind of operation Apple runs.
Apple deliberately prevented BeOS from working on their newer hardware.
In effect, they forced Apple hardware users to use their OS, in a time period when a significant part of the 'leading' mindshare was defecting.
One of the companies Apple ran out of business by suing them was Orange Computer, who made the Orange Peel, an Apple 2 clone.
...any royalty arrangements in the deal with the former owners/employees of Gluecode.
Sucks if you make that kind of a deal and then the purchaser just throws your product out free to the wind.
but Disney would still be pretty screwed.
Ol' Walt has been 'pretty screwed' for years now. He's dead, after all. Why a bunch of hangers-on and opportunists should be clinging to his legacy is beyond me.
The public domain might suffice, but let's go back to origins. Would the laser printer company whose proprietary programming interface Stallman wanted access to have been required to disclose it? There's such a thing as trade secrets, too. Unless we're saying there should be no secrecy at all, anywhere.
Well, now there are probably wankers out there digging around for an RPM for tr.
For some formulations, that is.
I like my CD-based MP3 player. I like the idea that I can burn ten more CDRs for a couple bucks and increase my portable MP3 collection by 8 gigs.
Hmm. Pretty close to monopoly status....
Aren't sheep an 'invasive species' as well?
The kind of person who is going to make a top-dollar purchase for a new Mac is also going to be the kind of person who buys Microsoft Office, various Adobe products, etc. If s/he has bought all the Windows versions of said software, s/he is held captive by said expensive binary licenses.
You're right, though, that the occasional sleezebag who happens to somehow get a Mac might try to call it 'format shifting' and get warez versions of everything.
It's a second hand 'benefit,' but where would httpd be without gui-based browsers connecting to it?