Originally Posted by mxl36o
Earth to retardo.... civic si and civic dx both made from???? doesn't mean civic dx wont drool over SI
Here's a better analogy. Imagine Honda made two identical cars, the Civic CX and the Civic DX. The DX has a better interior. The CX is free. Which is better?
Originally Posted by mayonaise
that is the worst analogy i've ever heard.
...this makes the GPL a nazi watchdog how? and by this logic, apple computer is a user, not a developer...?
Were it not for a truly open source available for a base (BSD), Mac users would have been stuck with more evolutions of the previous Mac OS, which IMHO was trash. Thus, users benefit. Apple really doesn't benefit a great deal, because their user base would have purchased Mac OS X even if it was built off some Commodore 64 code. They release a better product for no added cost.
Similarly, Microsoft has taken several toolsets and most of BSD's TCP/IP stack handling for the Windows 2000 kernel. Again, users benefit. Same as the above with Microsoft's benefit. It isn't like they are hurting for users.
Offhand, I can't think of a large company that has used any GPL code in their products... maybe because it would financially ruin them? Thus, the developers of GPL code won't be used by the megacorps they despise, and who benefits from the GPL code?
Originally Posted by Epoch
It's just confined to the PPC chipset and costs money...
If Apple was smart they'd port it to x86. But they're horribly shortsighted.