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

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren't you confusing the Closed version of Open with the Open version of Open?

I'm not.  ;)  Maybe Steve was.

> 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.

I think was Steve was really trying to do was blow smoke.  He knows
that Windows isn't open, and the android people weren't trying to say
"Android is open like Windows", but if he could convince his listeners
that was what the android crowd was saying, then he could score some
points.

Really, what he said made no sense, but it got positive press coverage
and that's what really counts, isn't it?

Michael