[ale] Steve Jobs says that Windows is "open"

[Charles Shapiro]

Aren't you confusing the Closed version of Open with the Open version of Open?

Windows runs on a variety of hardware platforms.  That makes it Open
WRT to MacOS, which runs only on Apple machinery.  Linux ( for
example) runs on a large variety of hardware platforms and can be
built from source by the end user. That makes it Open and also Open
Source.

-- CHS


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Michael Potter <michael at potter.name> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I couldn't believe this when I read it:
>> “Google loves to characterize Android as ‘open’ and iOS and iPhone as
>> ‘closed.’ We find this a bit disingenuous, and clouding the real
>> difference between our two approaches,” Jobs said. “The first thing
>> most of us think about when we hear the word ‘open’ is Windows, which
>> is available on a variety of devices."
>>
>> And no, that isn't a quote out of context.  Read the whole thing here:
>> http://www.macworld.com/article/154969/2010/10/jobs_rim_android.html
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> I totally believe it. I have had people tell me for many years that
> they consider Windows an open systems.  I ran the "Open Systems" group
> in Chicago for many years and had one gentleman (who had attended
> several meetings) ask for more Windows presentations.  I informed him
> that Windows was not an open system and I never saw him again.
>
> --
> potter
>
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