[News] KDE Lead: Apple Doesn't Mesh with Open

[Roy Schestowitz]

KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop

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| Apple doesn't get the open source development model and has a very control
| oriented corporate culture and that doesn't mesh very well with an open,
| collaborative environment. Apple is getting better at it, or at least parts
| of Apple are getting it. I hope to look at it in five years and say this was
| growing pains for Apple to get where it is.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;885892575;pp;1

Related:

Apple failing to understand open source

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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html

Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic'

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| In the speech predicting how Apple would expand its market share, Jobs showed
| a slide with Safari dominating almost a quarter of the market--a market
| shared only with a single other browser, Internet Explorer.  
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| Lilly says he doesn't believe that this was an omission or simplification,
| but instead an indication that Jobs is hoping to steal people who use Firefox
| and other smaller browsers in order to run a "duopoly" with Redmond.  
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191562.html

Researcher Blasts Apple for 'Negligent' Patching

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| A researcher who went public last month with the first iPhone vulnerability
| says Apple's updating of the open-source components it uses in Mac OS X is
| inexcusable and negligent.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135589-c,macos/article.html

Wozniak hates Open Sauce

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| In an interview with eWeek, Woz said that there are always people who want
| things to be free and the open-source movement starts with those sort of
| people.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/09/25/wozniak-hates-open-sauce

Apple Releases Leopard Source Code

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| Darwin 9.0 is a fully-conformant UNIX operating system that's built on Mach
| 3.0 and FreeBSD 5. It bundles over a hundred popular Open Source products,
| including bash, tcsh, ksh, and zsh, emacs, vim, and nano.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139317-pg,1/article.html

Quicksilver goes Open Source

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| Now after previously making promises to that effect, the developer (who likes
| to go by Alcor) has released the source for Quicksilver as a Google Code
| project.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/06/quicksilver-goes-open-source/

[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:38:44 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Apple doesn't get the open source development model and has a very control
>| oriented corporate culture and that doesn't mesh very well with an open,
>| collaborative environment. Apple is getting better at it, or at least parts
>| of Apple are getting it. I hope to look at it in five years and say this was
>| growing pains for Apple to get where it is.
> `----
>
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;885892575;pp;1

And it's a good thing they, Apple don't.

Currently Apple have a very solid, professionally built platform that is
increasing it's user base every single day.

Why on earth would they want to poison OSX with shoddy, crappy, poorly
documented and written Open Source programs like KDE for example.

KDE 4.x is bug riddled and is quickly becoming a joke before it has even
been released.

Apple does not need open source, but maybe in 5 years if the OSS community
manages to get it's act together and produce quality desktop programs,
Apple might do itself some good to examine the bizarre world of OSS again.