> From: Sebastiaan [mailto:sebas@sacred-key.org] > > Is this not strange, I always thought Apple hated M$? Many Apple users do, but most depend on M$ Office. Now for Apple itself... Gates and Jobs are rumoured to be friends, and their world views are more similar than people realise. Both of them are big-time monopolists - it's just that Jobs has stuck himself as monopolist of a small niche; both of them have eschewed open systems whenever possible (Gates dumped Xenix when M$ got enough power, Jobs only adopted BSD and GNU when he couldn't possibly deliver his own proprietary solution, for example), both want to be - and are - dirty rich. See that M$ hasn't yet dumped Mac Office, but their OS/2 counterparts are long gone into the dustbin of History. Anyway the brokenness of OpenFirmware in OldWorld Macs is proof enough that Apple wasn't really in love with open systems, just used OF because it needed something working fast - all right, probably the aborted IBM agreements had something to do with this one. --_ / \ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 246 96 07 resl \ / Amdocs Brasil Ltda, Sao Paulo +55 (11) 3040 8913 coml X http://terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ ; mailto:leandrod@amdocs.com / \ Campanha fita ASCII, contra correio HTML BRASIL
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