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Apple is more evil than MicrosoftApple is more evil than MicrosoftPosted Jan 12, 2008 2:43 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: Microsoft's goals by man_ls Parent article: Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child (Technocrat.net)
Oh, don't get me started! Apple is easily twice as evil as Microsoft in regards to vendor lock-in and DRM. As this article by Mike Elgan at PCWorld suggests, Microsoft didn't deserve as big a firestorm of criticism for their predatory tactics over the years when one compares them to Apple. In fact, I was almost ready to feel a tiny amount of sympathy for Microsoft after reading that article (of course, my blood was starting to boil by then). But, Microsoft has its 93% market share to Apple's 5% (I'm totally guessing those numbers right now), so MS gets more anti-monopoly fingers pointed at them. Deal is, Apple isn't trying to hack the OLPC XO into booting OS X Leopard.
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Apple is more evil than Microsoft Posted Jan 12, 2008 15:25 UTC (Sat) by jeff@uclinux.org (guest, #8024) [Link] WSJ ArticleFrom 2005, while this was still on the drawing board... "Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.'s chief executive, offered to provide free copies of the company's operating system, OS X, for the machine, according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative's founders. "We declined because it's not open source," says Dr. Papert, noting the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with. An Apple spokesman declined to comment."
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