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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,851874,00.asp

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January 29, 2003
A Mac Angle on Linux
By Matthew Rothenberg

One of my favorite recent experiences as Mac tour guide was when I escorted my buddy (and Microsoft reporter extraordinaire) Mary Jo Foley to Jacob Javits Center for her first Macworld Expo and a bracing dose of Dr. Steve's keynote patent medicine.

A veteran observer of Windows gatherings, versed in the stylings of Messrs. Gates, Ballmer et al., Foley was pleasantly impressed by the vitality of my little corner of the desktop market. She earned some kudos from Mac users for her subsequent remarks that Mac technology and its adherents can still teach the Microsoft majority a thing or two despite the numerical gulf between them.

Mary Jo may not be ready to cash in her ThinkPad, but this industry veteran did come away from the event with a new appreciation for the finer points of the Mac as a computing platform and a cultural touchstone. (She's even made it back for a couple of subsequent Macworld installments.)

I had a similar cross-cultural experience at last week's LinuxWorld here in New York, where I spent a few pleasant hours walking the floor and talking to the enthusiastic attendees about Linux's desktop prospects, the role Mac hardware can play there and the chances of peaceful co-existence between Linux and Mac OS X.

It bore out a lot of what I've been hearing from fans of both platforms: These are communities that can work and play well together on the desktop.

My longstanding creed of desktop heterogeneity has always seen creative possibilities in the perennial competition between the main commercial desktop OSes -- Windows with 90-something percent of the market and the Mac with most of the rest.

The vibe seems decidedly different when it comes to the current Linux-Mac relationship: The OSes' shared Unix underpinnings and Apple's partial embrace of the open-source principles on which Linux is founded spells a more permeable, symbiotic relationship between the two environments. What's more, the availability of Linux distros for the PowerPC platform means that many Linux advocates have happily adopted Apple's hardware

cahult:
I like that article a lot. Here

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Beneficial to each other when Apple ports at least one fucking app that people want to use on linux!

QUICKTIME!!!

As far as i see it (as much as i like apple), they to me are merely using OSS as a rescource and bringing very little back, they are doing it to their advantage.  WOW KDE get KHTML code back, big frills.

It would be far better if we get Quicktime for linux, it free already anyway, if they think its not worth the expense then let OS developers do the work anyway.

Its not hard, its just apple.

I'm still buying one of their ibooks though.

Calum:
i agree 100% with you, butter, if apple gave a shit about anybody but themselves, they'd port quicktime to linux. as it is they lick windows' dick in this fashion but they won't even answer linux' 'phone calls.

The only reason apple give any code back is because they're legally obliged to. Apple is a manic schizophrenic company. their stuff is excellent, but i am not much less wary of them than of microsoft. they are a company after all, and they are more monopolistic than microsoft, it just doesn't show because they have the mouse's share of the market.

[ January 31, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

Pantso:
So you're telling me that if Apple released Quicktime for Linux then you would all be a lot happier and less wary of them! Jeese!!   :mad:  

What you constantly seem to be forgetting is that the core of OS X is FULLY and TRULY Open Source. What about that, huh? What about all those future improvements in KHTML and subsequently Konqueror, that Apple shares with the Open Source community. I guess that even that is not enough for you people!!

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