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

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 16:58:02 EST 2010


On 11/29/2010 04:39 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 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.
>
Case closed


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