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RE: Apple and open Standards?
>At best open protocols is all they support. Apple is a proprietary OS running on proprietary hardware. They are hardly an Open Source Champion.

While they may not be an open source 'champion', don't sell them short on the open source front, either.

OS X may be a proprietary operating system, but it is built on top of a very non-proprietary FreeBSD.

Darwin (OS X's open source twin) has been released to the open source community for years and gets updated along side version releases of OS X.

Apple has been tending to adopt open protocols for much of their goods lately, including MPEG4/AAC.

Safari is not only based on KHTML/KJS/KDE, but when Apple completes improvements to it, they release them back into the open source community and all improvements go straight into their own WebCore and JavascriptCore development tools for use by folks screwing around with Darwin.

I'm not trying to portray Apple as a group of open source saints or anything, but to say all they do at best is support open protocols is way off base. They've accepted help from the open source community and they've contributed back, a lot more than many other major corps out there. Have they been the most generous corp out there as far as open source goes? No. Definitely not. They've still got a lot of business to run and they're still going to keep a lot of things proprietary and under wraps. That being said, they've been a contributor and that alone is much more than many others can say.
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Even Microsoft believes in Apple  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
Apple and Open Standards  Aphelion | 01/23/04
Apple and open Standards?  ShadeTree | 01/23/04
RE: Apple and open Standards?  JakAttak | 01/23/04
OS X may be a proprietary operating system, but ...  balsover | 01/23/04
Don't you dare compare Apple to M$.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/24/04
But nothing  Richard Flude | 01/25/04
osX is a proprietary gui environment  mactek.net | 01/25/04
BSD is proprietary?  stephen732@... | 01/23/04
Not BSD!  ShadeTree | 01/26/04
Open Standards/Open Source  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
If there is a market for it...  balsover | 01/23/04
It's all about bang for the buck...  gtdworak | 01/23/04
what volkswagon did you buy?  LightningShrike | 01/23/04
Actually...  BitTwiddler | 01/23/04
True  LightningShrike | 01/23/04
I'd rather have the VW.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/24/04
Another thing  LightningShrike | 01/23/04
Darned fine article...  BitTwiddler | 01/23/04
On clones  j.m.galvin | 01/23/04
I never said...  BitTwiddler | 01/23/04
Apple relies on its reputation...  mactek.net | 01/25/04
Scorn??  Don Bradley | 01/23/04
People don't know  j.m.galvin | 01/23/04
Well, at least  Don Bradley | 01/23/04
Clones were killing Apple sales though  tic swayback | 01/23/04
All hardware-monopoly models are losers. Can you admit it?  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Gee, I'd love to be a millionaire profitable "loser"  tic swayback | 01/23/04
Down from the ($) majority to ($) minority is a way up? (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Staying in business and making money  tic swayback | 01/23/04
Thus, you admitted that Apple is a MS servant.  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Not as such  tic swayback | 01/23/04
With a winning set you have no risk if ? you know how to play with.  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
So did BeOS (NT)  tic swayback | 01/24/04
It is a good practice to learn a game before you play.  Vily Clay | 01/24/04
How can you learn what doesn't exist?  tic swayback | 01/26/04
OK. I will simplify it for you.  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
Worse does not equal bad  tic swayback | 01/26/04
Let?s start from the basic: Why hardware monopoly is good? (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
Good and bad  tic swayback | 01/26/04
I hope you know the definition of monopoly.  Vily Clay | 01/27/04
Apple did quite well with Clone before the MAC  voska | 01/23/04
Times change  tic swayback | 01/23/04
It's all in the past  voska | 01/23/04
How it sounds: ?I serve Hitler because I afraid of him??  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
How about this...  tic swayback | 01/24/04
They did not learn gambling before they played. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/24/04
So freakin' what? (NT)  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
Drop the hardware-monopoly model and let?s live?(NT)  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Yes, throw away your successful business to make Vily happy  tic swayback | 01/23/04
If Apple would build Mac OS on IBM clones (20 years ago) ? ...  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Sometimes it is too late  tic swayback | 01/24/04
There are always winning solutions for guys who are looking for them. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/24/04
Huge profits are a winning solution  tic swayback | 01/25/04
Thus, Apple?s winning solution is living under MS forever (?) NT  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
No, just living apart and beside Microsoft  tic swayback | 01/26/04
Steve Jobs wanted to be the ONE. He lost. The World is not balanced.  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
Why must there be only one?  tic swayback | 01/26/04
According to you the World has no choice as MS monopoly. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
No, some choice now, more eventually  tic swayback | 01/26/04
But you wrote Apple should not compete with MS.  Vily Clay | 01/27/04
Your "proof" doesn't make any sense.  olePigeon | 01/25/04
Think twice, please. You just proved why Apple is a loser.  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
Portable video players? Who really wants one?  tic swayback | 01/23/04
portable video players - i want one  hipparchus | 01/23/04
In a Tech Magazine a few years ago  voska | 01/23/04
maybe they will learn from this.  Arrg | 01/23/04
Why Intel?  tic swayback | 01/23/04
good point!!  Arrg | 01/23/04
Hindsight is 20-20  tic swayback | 01/23/04
true  Arrg | 01/23/04
Risky  tic swayback | 01/23/04
On the other hand...  balsover | 01/23/04
Not gonna happen  tic swayback | 01/23/04
Apple isn't making money?  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
No, methinks its you that don't get it.....  mlindl | 01/26/04
Apple didn't notice Microsoft back then  voska | 01/23/04
More hindsight  tic swayback | 01/23/04
It's would be interesting  voska | 01/23/04
WARNING: Simplistic BS spread here  Richard Flude | 01/25/04
It's NOT just the OS!  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
You missed the point  Arrg | 01/23/04
No, YOU are missing the point  MarcB_z | 01/23/04
I disagree  voska | 01/23/04
How smart? Really  Richard Flude | 01/25/04
This is pretty funny...  sd_0001 | 01/23/04
Where'd you get that one?  tic swayback | 01/23/04
ok, outlandish..  sd_0001 | 01/23/04
what are you smoking?  doh123 | 01/24/04
no...not VPC  sd_0001 | 01/25/04
Non-Motorola  tic swayback | 01/25/04
Imagine a conversation ?  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Vily - usual clueless apple rants  bgoss@... | 01/25/04
You have no arguments, but you talk ?  Vily Clay | 01/25/04
Try to imagine this  tic swayback | 01/25/04
Corrections.  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
Missing the point  tic swayback | 01/26/04
You do not see Apple as it is. Try again. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/26/04
And you still can not justify your schemes  tic swayback | 01/26/04
If you want to live with closed eyes - live with it.  Vily Clay | 01/27/04
Vily Vily Vily  bgoss@... | 01/26/04
I suggest you to live in a city instead of jungles.  Vily Clay | 01/27/04
Broken record  TWRX | 01/25/04
not so outlandish  buddhistMonkey | 01/25/04
exactly right  JWatson77 | 01/24/04
Reasonable expectations?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/24/04
ZDNet - true to form  Richard Flude | 01/25/04
hmmmm, isn't that awful X86 still faster?  zeusfuse | 01/25/04
Time to feed the troll  Richard Flude | 01/25/04
you missed my point...  zeusfuse | 01/28/04
ZD's Apple/Mac-bashing on its 20th Anniv. is par for the course.  dicktaurus@... | 01/25/04
Paul Allen not the only owner  tic swayback | 01/25/04

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