Re: [Marxism] iPods are evil

[Marc Simpson <reifiedmind@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

-- On 23 Jun 2006, at 16:41, Muammar Kris Khaira wrote:

> However, being an underdog in the OS market, clever advertising and
> other initiatives like using the free, open source FreeBSD kernel for
> Mac OS X has created a halo of righteousness for them in the eyes of
> consumers.

Not all technological choices reflect this 'halo effect'. FreeBSD has
been part of OS X since its previous incarnation, NeXT.

No doubt Apple market this "Open Source" position (just take a look at
the website), but the architecture was developed before free software
became pop.

-M



                
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