[CrackMonkey] OS/X Beta

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:25:12 -0700 
Don Marti <dmarti at flynn.zork.net> wrote:

> begin Peter A. Peterson II quotation of Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at
> 11:14:50AM -0500:
>> True enough. Still, that's ridiculous!

> Proprietary software isn't ridiculous because of the price -- even
> $0 proprietary software is still the business equivalent of eating
> a ham sandwich in an organic chemistry lab.

If Apple are sufficiently smart, they could end up owning the casual
user desktop.  They have the history and design legacy, as versus
Gnome and KDE, as well as the established presence.  They're
actually in a fairly good position to embrace and subsume (slightly
different from ebrace and extend) the OSS development efforts as
they march *nix onto your grandmother's desktop.  As compared to
SGI, they're not trying to push Linux into supporting their customer
base, or Sun with their split brained tandem-horse, but are instead
approaching it tangentially and are actually in a rather good
position to cherry pick the bits they like, folding them into OSX as
they go along (and gradually opening it en route).

Talk about winning the distro wars through the back door.

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