If Apple was really a friend of Open Source..
Posted by Eitan Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:20:00 GMT
- the quicktime player would be available for linux
- ditto for itunes
i believe apple has benefited much from open source. safari for example is a derivative of konqueror. there are many other examples.
of course, from a business perspective, apple leverages these assets to draw people to the mac platform. and there's nothing wrong with that. it makes perfect business sense. if its jewel apps were available on linux, there'd be less of a reason to give apple money..err i mean, to switch. that's why itunes on windows makes perfect sense: apple had a large market for ipods to gain in return. i suppose the size of the linux market is too small to make a difference in the case of itunes.
i guess my gripe is with this whole wolf in sheep's clothing thing: saying "we're a friend of open source, we're the good guys" is pure rubbish of course. the good guys are the people that forge open source: gnu, linux, the people behind the projects on sourceforge.
anyhow, it'd be nice some day to run quicktime, itunes, and keynote on gnome or kde. i'd pay $100 for a copy of keynote for linux... assuming the copy was at par with its apple counterversion.
