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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