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Apple a Bigger Open Source Enemy than Microsoft? I can almost guarantee that you did not click on that link. Nor are you interested in doing so.

Stuff like that is absolutely disgusting. It is true that Apple is very protective of their IP, but please name one open source project from Microsoft that is of substance. Now take a look at Mac OS Forge. Directly from Apple we have Webkit, directly used by the KDE project, Google’s Android platform, and other light-weight browsers. How about the Darwin Streaming Server? A very easy to use and intuitive, full featured audio and video streaming server for RTP and RTSP. It can be used in tandem with their commercial QuickTime Streaming Server product. Then there’s ZFS, launchd, XQuartz, CalendarServer, not to mention Darwin (the core OS layer for Apple’s Mac OS X) itself.

Sure, the iPhone is not what we hoped for, and iTunes is still laden with DRM, but the proof is in the pudding, and using a Mac is unbelievably better than any completely open source OS available today, no matter what any zealous fanatics say.

Debian Lenny Beta 2

Installing Debian Lenny in VMware Fusion right now. It looks really good.

If I really like what I see, might consider adding more information here.