[nycbug-talk] lame...real lame Andy

[Pete Wright]

>From the news.com.com interview with Andy Hertzfeld:
http://news.com.com/How+the+Mac+was+born%2C+and+other+tales/2008-1082_3-5529081.html?tag=st.num

How would things be different for Apple if they switched to Linux from FreeBSD?

Technically that doesn't make much of a difference at all. Commercially...
The more free software on the system, the more alliances it would allow them
to make with companies like IBM, and some of the other open-source systems.

<rant>
ok since when does linux == free software...and more importantly isn't linux
just a fscking kernel?!?  and finally i really have no friggin' idea how he
makes the leap of a vendor *not* using the GPL preventing them from working
with vendors...aside from the marketing perspective.

sigh...who would have thought the guy behind such "great" firms as
Eazel would completely not misunderstand such basic concepts...

anyway it's an interesting read if anyone feels like getting worked up for
no good reason.
</rant>
-p

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