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choasforages

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apple needs to opensource more
« on: 26 July 2005, 12:34 »
remember back in the days of nt 3.5 and 4.0. it would boot on almost all the major commercial platforms of the day. alpha, sparc, mips, ppc, and x86.
now os x is going to run on ppc and x86. the next step would be getting it to boot on everything else and opensourcing cocao and aqua. sun has given us open office, and opensolaris. from what ive seen solaris on x86 is gaining some popularity. all we have from apple is opendarwin. sgi gave linux several things, like the xfs filesystem, the ability to boot 512 goddamn procs in a single system image. all of which you can read to figure out how in the hell they did it. apple i think should give us display pdf
x86: a hack on a hack of a hackway
alpha, hewlett packed it A-way
ppc: the fruity way
mips: the graphical way
sparc: the sunny way
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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #1 on: 26 July 2005, 16:25 »
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all we have from apple is opendarwin


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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #2 on: 29 July 2005, 07:47 »
Yeah! Just drop everything and go opensource! Give away everything for free! It's not like Apple is trying to run a business or anything.

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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #3 on: 29 July 2005, 09:09 »
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Yeah! Just drop everything and go opensource! Give away everything for free! It's not like Apple is trying to run a business or anything.

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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #4 on: 29 July 2005, 15:15 »
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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #5 on: 29 July 2005, 20:53 »
What would be the disadvantages to Apple (or Microsoft, or Adobe, or nearly any other software company) if they feed up all their software? I don't see how they could lose that much in sales...
And ofcourse we already know the advantages of free software.
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Re: apple needs to opensource more
« Reply #6 on: 30 July 2005, 01:57 »
If a corperation already has a large userbase and a strong following of loyal customers, they will not lose those customers buy open sourcing. they may even add some.

The problems is that if they open source everything, non-[insert corp name here] users might pay less for another company offering the exact software.

Large corperations don't want to flatline. that's not good business. They want to increase their profits, reach more people. If there is a competitor that has 100% the same software, then they will either lose % margin on their sales to compete, or lose potential first-timer users.

I suppose this is mostly only for corperations with strong backing/loyal userbase that are well established. To avoid any protests to my thoughts, I know OSS-oriented businesses thrive because they share their code.


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