Comment Re:Mac Advocates Want Moral High Ground (Score 1) 52
The Mac OS is an example of how closed source succeeds ... Closed source produces real clunkers and true works of art.
While I can't say that I've ever been overwhelmed by the Mac GUI, I will stipulate that the MacOS is a good example of a UI.
However I don't think that MacOS's closed source was intrinsic to its (technical/aesthetic) success. Apple could do something similar to Mozilla, where the development process is open but the final decision as to what goes into The Official MacOS(r) would remain with Apple.
With Navigator 5, Netscape is likely to continue to use and bundle closed source and proprietary modules and plugins, such as Sun's JVM.
Also, very large (corporate) open source projects like Mozilla tend to have only a small corps of developers outside of the company itself. There are lots of people who pull the source from the CVS tree and maybe try a build or two, but the active developers are few and far between.
--Pete
While I can't say that I've ever been overwhelmed by the Mac GUI, I will stipulate that the MacOS is a good example of a UI.
However I don't think that MacOS's closed source was intrinsic to its (technical/aesthetic) success. Apple could do something similar to Mozilla, where the development process is open but the final decision as to what goes into The Official MacOS(r) would remain with Apple.
With Navigator 5, Netscape is likely to continue to use and bundle closed source and proprietary modules and plugins, such as Sun's JVM.
Also, very large (corporate) open source projects like Mozilla tend to have only a small corps of developers outside of the company itself. There are lots of people who pull the source from the CVS tree and maybe try a build or two, but the active developers are few and far between.
--Pete
