<p>To be fair, all of the things apple did to subvert FLOSS were well within the bounds of the BSD license. </p>
<p>sent from my shoe phone</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2010 7:18 PM, "Jim Philips" <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Yes, the tech industry press often refers to the "reality distortion field"<br>
> that kicks in whenever Apple makes a pronouncement. Apple long ago subverted<br>> and co-opted the open technologies that it once pretended to embrace.<br>> <br>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Michael Hirsch <<a href="mailto:mdhirsch@gmail.com">mdhirsch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Charles Shapiro<br>>> <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > Aren't you confusing the Closed version of Open with the Open version of<br>
>> Open?<br>>><br>>> I'm not. ;) Maybe Steve was.<br>>><br>>> > Windows runs on a variety of hardware platforms. That makes it Open<br>>> > WRT to MacOS, which runs only on Apple machinery. Linux ( for<br>
>> > example) runs on a large variety of hardware platforms and can be<br>>> > built from source by the end user. That makes it Open and also Open<br>>> > Source.<br>>><br>>> I think was Steve was really trying to do was blow smoke. He knows<br>
>> that Windows isn't open, and the android people weren't trying to say<br>>> "Android is open like Windows", but if he could convince his listeners<br>>> that was what the android crowd was saying, then he could score some<br>
>> points.<br>>><br>>> Really, what he said made no sense, but it got positive press coverage<br>>> and that's what really counts, isn't it?<br>>><br>>> Michael<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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