On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 at 13:44:34 +0100 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
[...] > Steve Jobs understood that users must be won with eyecandies, and on > that side we will never be able to beat Apple. Not because Free > Software cannot produce better eyecandies, but because the newly-won > users, lured through eyecandies, would flee back to Apple as soon as > Apple provides a more appealing set of eyecandies. Which reminds me of something... here it is: https://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/ In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.” "If you can't beat them on the technology/eyecandy, sue them!" -- Alessandro Selli http://alessandro.route-add.net VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiavi PGP/GPG keys: B7FD89FD, 4A904FD9 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
