On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 18:58 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:15 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Woz was/is a Saint. I wish he'd come out on the Linux side. Ric > ---- > yeah...I have no idea what happened to my 'red' book either (I never saw > the blue book). > > As for Woz...he's probably still holding too much Apple stock to > seriously consider anything public about Linux but you know he's fooled > with it. What the hey...he's busy playing hide the salami with you know > who. If it wasn't for the Woz, you-know-who would be barefoot at the beach sipping wine-coolers paid for by rich old dames. The original Apple][ was a dream of a machine, open sourced in the red (integer basic source code list and circuits specs) and blue book (I think that had the Floating Point source-code listing and docs) as well as complete logical diagrams of the circuitry. All right there and shipped with every machine. Then Jobs stuck his fingers in, started close-sourcing everything, starting with the Apple][+ and made it into an appliance. Just wait, the iToaster, iDustBuster and the iFormansGrill will be his next offerings. His followers will cheer madly. In case you can't tell, I really despise the man. If Woz were to run the joint, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. <chuckles> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
