Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:58:20 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Apple]RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <p05100317b7514b5112b1@[192.168.168.205]> In-Reply-To: <p05100300b750fc065f21@[194.78.241.123]> References: <20010616080451.84356.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com> <p05100300b750fc065f21@[194.78.241.123]>
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At 2:35 PM +0200 6/16/01, Brad Knowles wrote: >They're still a world apart, and seem to be weathering the economic >downturn far better than any other PC manufacturer I know: I was at the press conference in Cupertino when Apple announced the release of Mac OS X. One of the questions was how Apple was going to deal with the economic downturn. Steve responded that Apple was in the fortunate position of having a couple of billion dollars on hand and no real debt, so they planned to sail right through it, doing the long-term things they needed to do. Speaking for myself, I am happy to pay Apple a bit extra if it allows them to do the kind of R&D that produces nice machines and OSes, stay out of trouble in recessions, etc. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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