Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, if you don't believe that OS X is a proprietary, or at least a copyrighted product, post the OS X 10.3 disk images on your website for public download for a few weeks and see what happens. PORTIONS of OS X are free software, but these items do not a complete OS make. The General Public License (GPL) is probably what most people are thinking of when they think "Open Source", and the core of OS X is absolutely, positively not GPL'd. This is the license that gives Mr. Gates fits: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Jeff >Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 00:35:13 -0700 >From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Mac vs. Windows > >Please, stop with the FUD! > >OS X is in large part open source. It runs APACHE WEB >SERVER! That's OPEN SOURCE!!!!! BSD UNIX - open >source. Java is standard and cross-platform. >Networking is open source. It's Kerberos is open >source! It's standard graphics format is PDF! Audio is >MPEG-4. > >Get it? > >Windows is proprietary. Java proprietary and >Windows-only. IIS Web Server - Proprietary. Kerberos >Proprietary. Networking - Open Source - lifted >wholesale from BSD UNIX __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html