Macs

[David Sanders]

> Much of OS X /is/ FOSS. Apple is FOSS-friendly.
>
> Instead, many FOSS programmers are embracing Micros~1's .NET, which
> however good it may be, is not GPL and is from a company that calls
> Linux "communist", "cancer" and "a curse". Micro~1 is the world's
> biggest, richest software company, the most litigious, it is
> documented and convicted as a liar, a thief, a cheat and an illegal
> monopolist.
>
> We should /never/ trust /anything/ from MS, no matter how good or
> useful or tempting it may seem. Make no mistake, MS would like to
> exterminate the FOSS community from the face of the Earth.

Please don't pretend for a second that if Apple were in the dominant
monopoly position they would somehow be "nicer" than Microsoft. Would
you mind telling me which particular project Apple funded that has
helped the rest of the FOSS ecosystem?

Was it buying CUPS? Was it Darwin(ho ho ho!)? Erm, anything else?

Basically Apple used big bits of BSD userland and kernel, and, if you
look at the FreeBSD contributor map, gave absolutely nothing back. Of
course with the BSD license, that's not neccesary - which is why IMO
it's a bad license - completely suited to Tivo-isation.

I think you'll find that the Mono project is not on shaky legal ground
- it's already been allowed to go on for too long for MS to suddenly
pull the carpet from under Manuel's feet.