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  • Programmer for Senate! SJ cannot resist the big audience.... Question is when will they ship?
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • I hope Linux fails since I see it as a competitor to OS X in addition to WIndows. I don't mind (or care) if programmers want to give their time freely to open source projects, I just think it's a waste of that time. My opinion. Barto, we disagree…
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Hey, Barto: I'd respond, but you have no arguments other than personal attacks, innuendo, and logic failures. Linux sucks. People know it now. If you want to use it, please do. If IBM wants to use it, yay! You still can't beat the ease o…
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • For WWDC 2000, there were several TBA items that were not announced until AFTER the keynote. I was there. The little calendars they handed out indicated which major area these TBA's were in (Quicktime or WebObjects or ProjectBuilder or whatever), bu…
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Jared, I'm sure you know this, so please don't take it as an insult to your intelligence. Others here may not know or may not want to beleive it. The purpose of business is NOT to provide jobs. Businesses exist to move product at a profit and …
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Linux is Actually a competitor of Apple's, Barto. As a consultant, I get the question, "Why should I go with Mac OS X instead of Linux?" For a large company with it's own IT shop, Linux is an alternative (although more expensive in the long ru…
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Apple may not reveal the TBA items until the WWDC keynote, if then. Remember, technically, this is all subject to NDA - meaning they don't have to reveal the TBA content publicly to anyone NOT attending WWDC.
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Clean new drive, not a partition. If Panther is full of FileSystem changes, there's no telling what a preview version might do to a Jaguar disk. IT might just make it unusable for Jaguar, or it might create a whole bunch of invisible files that a…
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • I think Barto is on to something. The OS X Finder does fail to seem "friendly." Yes, it is quite powerful, but it often seems to disconnect from the user -- like it is going off into another room to get something you asked for without telling yo…
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • I think a lot of people are mistaking what I call the "elegance" of OS X for a lack of speed. Mac OS 9 is not really a multitasking OS, except for some very specific things that Apple built into it in the last couple of years of it's dominance. …
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • I do believe the 2000 WWDC keynote was broadcast via satellite/TechTV. Not sure about QuickTIme. I was there. Apple has been videoing entire WWDCs for a while now, so the presence of a camera crew is not definitive. (They sell the classes to deve…
    in June 23rd: special event in Berlin for 970 Powermacs Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • It affects end users most. The courts could easily rule that they are using illegal software and force IBM/RedHat/ whoever to remove it at IBM/etc's expense. Most likely, if IBM saw they would lose, they would settle - if SCO was willing. They'd …
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • From Reuters: The deal could put pressure on other firms to follow suit and sign license agreements. In addition, it could up the ante in a lawsuit that SCO filed against International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) last March. SCO…
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Having been to one WWDC (2000), it is a fun ride, but the smaller developers have been maltreated by Apple (their developer relations head left late 2001 mostly because he could not hack the job and treated developers as adversaries rather than chal…
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Speaking of changing the dates, Has Apple done anything to help out the folks whose travel costs were screwed by the date change? Have they offered to pay the Change fees? or to replace unrefundable/unchangeable tickets?
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Methinks the real spoiler here is Apple. Let's not forget who is now the world's largest distributor of unixen: Apple. IBM could settle with SCO cheaply, drop linux, then adopt OS X instead. SCO could be bought out by someone - IBM, Apple -- …
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • Sounds like SCO was about to sue MS for infringement. WinNT allegedly began as a unix variant/used a kernel similar (not sure, don't know), and perhaps SCO saw some deep pockets in MS. MS legal may have looked over the IBM suit and said, "Bal…
    in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • I have first-hand experience bursting that shield from the inside :-) It just came to me as I was typing. Please use it as you wish.
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • "developers aren't stupid" Intelligence is only a thin shield against stupidity, often pierced from the INside.
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003
  • So it is basically PR RDF. nuff said.
    in Wwdc Comment by jccbin May 2003