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Re: Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Indu... by schackbrian on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:20AM (#1009469)
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Re: Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Indu... by GeneralMaximus on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:55AM (#1009505)
By "open", I didn't mean "open source". If you're talking about open source, then almost everything on OS X that does not have a GUI is open source, including the kernel itself. (Also, WebKit came from KHTML. Apple couldn't possibly have made WebKit a proprietary product without getting into legal trouble, but this is besides the point.)

By "open", I meant a hacker-friendly platform. The iPhone is not hacker friendly, and the iPod is a brick for those of us who use Linux/BSD.

For Apple, open source is merely a good software development methodology that has worked well for quite a while now. They don't give a rat's ass about the philosophy behind it.

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