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Re: Apple Roms
In article <v02120d01ad5e893ef167@[199.246.2.110]>,
weismand@limestone.kosone.com says...
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>Also, for you PC types who might not know, Apple is extremely tight about
>sharing the ROM info, even though it is now licencing to others.
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>In my opinion this is a bit foolish on their part, unless they intend to
>bring out a competitive product. ARDI could offer them an avenue into an
>as yet untapped market and save them the trouble of porting a lot of their
>apps to the Wintel platform.
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>Cheerios,
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As primarily a PC and UNIX user and a computer science major, i'm rather
confounded by apple's policy towards proprietary information and closed
systems. Business-wise, apple is somewhat floundering these last few quarters
due to mass migration to more open platforms, and the resurgence of unix as a
viable alternative for the masses (ergo the success of Linux and UNIX's
prominence in internet functions, as well as UNIX's diversity as an
instructional tool). I enjoy apple machines greatly, and some of the software
implemented on these machines is far more cost-effective in terms of usability
and production than the same software on other platforms, mainly in the graphic
design department, so I have a major interest in ARDI acheiving full
compatibility. As apple is no longer the leader in technological
breakthroughs, the logical step is to implement the Mac/OS as a
platform-independent medium, such that apple maintains its intellectual
property while diversifying its markets instead of closing in on its current
business paranoia. In a world where we are all trying to share information,
apple is making it really difficult by playing the bully.
-gabe nevarez
bjork@pantheon.cis.yale.edu
http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bjork
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