Re: Apple Open Source (and design by buyout)

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From: Ernest N. Prabhakar (ernest@alumni.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 21:23:24 PDT


on 7/12/00 11:34 AM, Eirikur Hallgrimsson at eh@mad.scientist.com wrote:

> It looks very possible to me that Apple will completely lose their
> 'totally integrated' advantage due to this shotgun wedding, despite
> the fact that they are producing attractive demos. It remains to be
> seen if anyone outside of their captive customer base (installed
> base) will buy it, or whether it can survive in the business world.

The BSD community seems pretty impressed. Tell me what you think when the
public beta hits.
www.apple.com/macosx.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.
ernest@drernie.com
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ernest


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