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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I think the point was that while you praise many of the devices you list as evidence that Open Source "stuff" is no good... yet you neglect to realize that many of those devices run on top of Open Source software. The PS3 for example. TiVo uses the Linux Kernal. OS X is built on top of FREE BSD and includes a lot of open source stuff in it like perl, python, ruby, apache, samba, etc. etc.
Open source software has been very good for the computer and home electronics industry. Oh, and many of those companies commit code back to those open source projects also.
BOb
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Woah I never said open source stuff was no good! I said the opposite actually!
What I am saying is that from the general end user point of view
closed is better more finished and easier to use(in general of course).
I use loads of open software XBMC, Open Office, Handbrake they are great and I couldnt get a better closed piece of software.
And the iPad isnt software its hardware hence why I talked about closed being better and listed numerous hardware examples! (I genuinelly cant think of an open source piece of hardware Except the Pandora console (openpandora.org) of which I was one of teh first 200 orderers and have been waiting nearly 3 years for! I bet none of you have any open source hardware
