I know Engadget is just trolling (as usual... trolls rejoice) but I want to point out that Open Source is the most competitive form of business possible. So I really don't think it is particularly for hippies, although it is nice that it can be inclusive and free to an unparallelled degree.
Apple exploits open source, and sometimes contributes to it, but I think their overall strategy is disingenuous and counter to the development of a free world.
What exactly is disingenuous about their approach to open source? WebKit is the only one I've paid any attention to, but a lot of people take advantage of it for anything that needs to render webpages. In addition to Safari, it's also used on Andriod's browser, on Nokia's S60, and in Adobe's Apollo. Seems like a useful contribution to me.
Will, (and I hope for once the Engadget posting software makes this a reply to your comment, even though it refuses to remember my password), maybe disingenuous isn't exactly the right word to use. In a sense, they exemplify the BSD license - take good code, add to it sometimes, but make mostly proprietary products out of it. They don't makeopen source it part of their image, because that could confuse consumers, you have to go to the service door for that. Apple's products are largely funnels to their media distribution empire, they are disingenuous in their flip flopping attitude about DRM and their proprietary App Store that protects their interests more than the consumer (every cell phone uses signed apps, which protect against malicious apps). I don't like that amount of integration. A more open source oriented company wouldn't be afraid to embrace all the potential of new business and innovation, and for me to really love them would be as much focused on taking over the world philosophically (in sharing the wealth) as they are in taking over the world and making One Manufacturer, One Distributor, Über Alles.
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I know Engadget is just trolling (as usual... trolls rejoice) but I want to point out that Open Source is the most competitive form of business possible. So I really don't think it is particularly for hippies, although it is nice that it can be inclusive and free to an unparallelled degree.
Apple exploits open source, and sometimes contributes to it, but I think their overall strategy is disingenuous and counter to the development of a free world.
Wow someone who is actually RIGHT for a change. It's for yuppies and upstarters.
What exactly is disingenuous about their approach to open source? WebKit is the only one I've paid any attention to, but a lot of people take advantage of it for anything that needs to render webpages. In addition to Safari, it's also used on Andriod's browser, on Nokia's S60, and in Adobe's Apollo. Seems like a useful contribution to me.
@Will:
"What exactly is disingenuous about their approach to open source?"
See: OpenDarwin
Will, (and I hope for once the Engadget posting software makes this a reply to your comment, even though it refuses to remember my password), maybe disingenuous isn't exactly the right word to use. In a sense, they exemplify the BSD license - take good code, add to it sometimes, but make mostly proprietary products out of it. They don't makeopen source it part of their image, because that could confuse consumers, you have to go to the service door for that. Apple's products are largely funnels to their media distribution empire, they are disingenuous in their flip flopping attitude about DRM and their proprietary App Store that protects their interests more than the consumer (every cell phone uses signed apps, which protect against malicious apps). I don't like that amount of integration. A more open source oriented company wouldn't be afraid to embrace all the potential of new business and innovation, and for me to really love them would be as much focused on taking over the world philosophically (in sharing the wealth) as they are in taking over the world and making One Manufacturer, One Distributor, Über Alles.
Will: webkit is a QT-wrapper around khtml, and a bunch of fixes for khtml. While the name came from Apple, the majority of the code came from KDE.