In light of what M$ has done/said towards the Open Source community, I can forgive Apple for wanting to sue ppl for Aqua-based themes. I'm not happy about it, but I see M$ as being a much bigger threat to open source.
John Hebert --- Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm hoping to generate more interest in Mac OSX in > the > > BRLUG, since it is UNIX at its core. The move by > Apple > > to an open source based kernel was one of the > biggest > > events in the last few years to support the open > > source movement. I am very surprised that there > hasn't > > been more excitement about it in the open source > > community. The PowerPC chip is very fast for the > > price: I paid $100 for the PowerMac 8500 (128MB > RAM, > > 8GB ext drive) and monitor. I plan to make it a > > development server running either Linux for PPC or > > OSX. > > > > Although they've based their OS on an Open Source > kernel, Apple has been > pretty good at alienating the Open Source community > since (and before) > the release of OS X. Threats to sue creators of OS > X-like XFree86 themes > is the biggest example I can think of now. I've also > heard reported that > Apple has made their UNIX 'easy' by setting a lot of > binaries setuid > root. Maybe the benefits the OSS community can > receive by this is by > getting more users to eventually move to a Free OS. > > -Tim > > > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
