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

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

To be fair, all of the things apple did to subvert FLOSS were well within
the bounds of the BSD license.

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On Nov 29, 2010 7:18 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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