Apple and Open Source

Joseph Carter knghtbrd at debian.org
Wed Mar 17 14:10:32 UTC 1999


On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 07:58:26AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
[..]
> Apple wants to reap all the benefits from us, and not give us full
> discolure in return.
> 
> Then again, I may be suffering from "big business" paranoia.

Isn't that supposed to be my job?  (suffering from "big business"
paranoia that is)  My take on it was a bit less sinister, but perhaps a
bit misguided.  Seems they want a lot of the same things Netscape wanted
and we already decided those things were okay.

I believe that if we can get Eric to stop calling it Open Source when it
ain't even close, we have a chance to convince Apple to play nice.

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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd at debian.org>            Debian GNU/Linux developer
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