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Re: Apple Roms



In article <v02120d01ad5e893ef167@[199.246.2.110]>, 
weismand@limestone.kosone.com says...

>
>Also, for you PC types who might not know, Apple is extremely tight about
>sharing the ROM info, even though it is now licencing to others.
>
>In my opinion this is a bit foolish on their part, unless they intend to
>bring out a competitive product.  ARDI could offer them an avenue into an
>as yet untapped market and save them the trouble of porting a lot of their
>apps to the Wintel platform.
>
>Cheerios,
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>

As primarily a PC and UNIX user and a computer science major, i'm rather 
confounded by apple's policy towards proprietary information and closed 
systems.  Business-wise, apple is somewhat floundering these last few quarters 
due to mass migration to more open  platforms, and the resurgence of unix as a 
viable alternative for the masses (ergo the success of Linux and UNIX's 
prominence in internet functions, as well as UNIX's diversity as an 
instructional tool).  I enjoy apple machines greatly, and some of the software 
implemented on these machines is far more cost-effective in terms of usability 
and production than the same software on other platforms, mainly in the graphic 
design department, so I have a major interest in ARDI acheiving full 
compatibility.  As apple is no longer the leader in technological 
breakthroughs, the logical step is to implement the Mac/OS as a 
platform-independent medium, such that apple maintains its intellectual 
property while diversifying its markets instead of closing in on its current 
business paranoia.  In a world where we are all trying to share information, 
apple is making it really difficult by playing the bully.

-gabe nevarez
bjork@pantheon.cis.yale.edu
http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bjork

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