____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 19 December 2007 00:36 : \____
> The reason for Apple's natural alignment behind open source isn't due
> to a halo of righteousness, but because the company is contending as a
> minority player in several markets dominated by Microsoft and the
> proprietary technologies it has established as de facto standards.
> Apple's position is identical to Linux, BSD, and other open source
> projects, giving it strong reasons to intercede on the behalf of
> victims of patent terrorism....
Apple could do a lot more to assist -- rather than attack and ignore -- Free
software. The author's Apple bias truly shows. Other Mac users have argued
that Apple does not do enough for FOSS or merely uses it (like the Web 2.0
movement).
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