>At 1:03 PM -0500 3/12/03, Victor Eijkhout wrote: >> Basic conclusion: >>Apple is open when it suits them. Quite worth reading. > >I have not read the article, but of course Apple is Open Source when >it suits them. I was not clear: open *standards*, not open source. Deatherage contrasts Apple's open file format for Keynote -- KN needing all the help it can get to win over PPT -- with the closed file formats for iTunes, iPhoto and such: only Apple can integrate those apps; Toast and such don't have the kind of integration that Apple's apps have. -- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/