Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:23:20 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: fredrik@speechcraft.com Cc: dscheidt@tumbolia.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010526152320O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105262306060.319-100000@molly.telia.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0105261548270.96952-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105262306060.319-100000@molly.telia.com>
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I think you're over-simplifying Apple's position somewhat. While I certainly would love to see Aqua and all the Carbon/Cocoa APIs released as Open Source (and said as much in this Salon article at http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2000/11/17/hubbard_osx/index.html), I don't think it's realistic to expect Apple to just throw the doors open and release software which cost it thousands of man-hours to write. There has to be some sort of financial return for anyone to make open source work, and in Apple's case this goes well beyond just hardware sales - they've already made a lot of money from selling OS X and will likely continue to do so. What I would expect Apple to do more of is _gradually_ open sourcing things once they've paid their way and have transitioned from differentiating to commodity technology. I'm impressed that they open-sourced CDSA right out of the starting gate, in fact. It's something that tends to indicate an understanding of the dividing line between technology that's a genuine value-add vs being purely infrastructural and standards oriented. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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