On Friday 24 Oct 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > [snip] > So the only argument left to fight about against Apple is the > philosophical angle, one that has always been the toughest to get > across.
You have only the philosophical angle if you restrict yourself to FSF's views. If you take the Open Source approach, then Apple has already lost, since they have forgone all the benefits of the open source development paradigm (stability, fewer bugs, faster development, more relevance, security) by choosing to build proprietary software. That they chose a FOSS platform to build their environment and applications on is only incidental: an environment is only as stable and secure as it's weakest link, and in the case of Apple (or any other proprietary software vendor) their weakest link happens to be their proprietary developments. You would recall the similar case of Winduhs heavily borrowing its network stack from BSD, which didn't bring any benefit to the rest of Winduhs or the Winduhs user experience as a whole. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
