Thursday, December 9, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Linux is awesome

 

Hey, Roy.  Quit beating around the bush and tell us what you really think of Apple.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre
On Dec 9, 2010 8:03 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:

Their OS is BSD. They took from open source and made a ton of money and then

proceeded to use it to attack open source and threaten to sue everybody.

Those are the facts. Like it or not. I give them nothing. Apple is evil,

pure and simple. There products are great if you like living in a fascist

dictatorship. I don't and will not give them any ground to spread their

message which is freedom hating to the core. Pun intended. :)

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit

Location: Canada

On 8 December 2010 23:45, dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>

> Roy,

>

> I think your statement that Apple "gives nothing back" is an exaggeration.

> Let's at least be fair about it.

>

> To give but one example, they "took" the web browser code from Konqueror

> and improved it, becoming what is now called Webkit. That is open source

> code--and is the basis of the new Konqueror, in fact, as well as various

> other browser projects.

>

> Second, the basis for OSX was indeed open source, but from the BSD

> universe--where the licensing permits exactly what they have done with it.

> When they have used GPL code, as with the browser example, they have

> complied with that license as well.

>

> Personally, I'm not adverse to the creation or use of a closed source

> product by those who wish to. As for open source code, so long as folks

> follow the license provisions, they are perfectly entitled to do what they

> wish with it otherwise. That is, after all, what licenses are for.

>

> Not using Apple computers is your right, just as using them is the right of

> any who wants to.

>

> To give them their due, OSX has an outstanding GUI--certainly not perfect

> but better in many ways than just about anything else out there--and no, I

> don't own an Apple and have no intention of buying one.

>

> I, too, have used KDE as my primary UI for many years. It appears that the

> project may be changing a great deal, though--and I would not be surprised

> if its name changes as well in the near-term future. I noticed, for

> instance, that KOffice has been renamed, while the desktop itself is more

> and more using the "Plasma" designation. I think that is a function of its

> increasing stress on mobile devices.

>

> David

>

> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,

> Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > I for one will never buy a Mac even if they were the only computer maker

> > left. I love open source and free software and Apple is at the exact

> > opposite. They are freedom haters that take from open source and give

> > nothing back, worse than Microsoft. I say this as someone whose first

> > computer was an Apple II. It was open and free as you like then Jobs

> killed

> > it off and came up with a closed computer for non techies and called it

> the

> > Mac. Yuck!

>

>

>

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