Mac OS X

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

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Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> 
> Could you be more specific? Do you, for instance, object to Apple's 
> license terms for Mac OS X? What about licensing for the Darwin project?

Licensing is the reason why I have advised Duke University not to switch 
from Windows to Mac OS X.

If you read the license terms of OS X, it states very clearly that you 
can only use OS X on Apple hardware, and therefore you effectively 
vendor-lock yourself into Apple products. This is worse than Windows by 
a long shot -- if you don't like one hardware vendor, you can always 
switch to another and still run Windows. With OS X, you are *FOREVER* 
stuck with Apple, unless you choose to move away from OS X.

Apple licensing is bad for business.

I don't see why any sane person would use Darwin. It's not a very good 
implementation of Unix.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
Duke Physics Systems Admin, RHCE
I am looking for a job in Canada!
http://linux.duke.edu/~icon/cajob.ptml

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