[ale] Apple TOS > GPL

[Jim Philips]

This stuff particularly bothers me, because so much that is Apple is built
on open source:

Mac OS from FreeBSD
Safari from Konqueror

They made a show earlier of playing nice with the open source crowd, then
they gave them the finger.

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>wrote:

> Apple was the king of proprietary back in the day and viewed as evil
> because of it.  M$ would at least run on petty much IBM compatible PC so
> was seen as more "open".
>
> It amuses me these days to see the number of UNIX/Linux folks that walk
> around with Apple products given that Apple's philosophy has always been
> to keep it all to themselves.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> William Fragakis
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:12 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes!We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Apple TOS > GPL
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62398
>
> "Apple would rather remove app than leave open-source license"
>
> enjoy,
> wf
>
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