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

[Jim Philips]

Yes, the tech industry press often refers to the "reality distortion field"
that kicks in whenever Apple makes a pronouncement. Apple long ago subverted
and co-opted the open technologies that it once pretended to embrace.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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