[PLUG] iCommune (was Re: Without OS X)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 11:34 AM -0500 2/7/03, christophe barbe wrote:
> For those who believe that Apple is now a model of free software
> friendly company, they should look closer[2].

	The iCommune issue has NOTHING to do with a "free software 
friendly company" and EVERYTHING to do with Apple's relationship with 
the RIAA and their desire to stay as far away from the "Napster 
debacle" as possible...


> For me the bigger
> contribution Apple is making to the Free Software is by relying on it
> for major part of its OS (BSD core, Apache, Samba) and not by
> contributing to KDE via Safari.

	I agree completely!   And not only are they using that 
software, but they are returning all their fixes and improvements 
back to the master trees - whether that be for Apache, Samba, CUPS or 
KHTML/KJS.


Leonard
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