Years later:
Finally, today:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” (source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/02patents.html)
ha interesting contrast. Though, really, isn’t this exactly what we would expect? Apple’s incentives have changed. Before, they were an underdog seeking any advantage they could find over bigger incumbents. Today, they are one of the largest incumbents.
I think Apple is losing a lot of market share to Android-based phones. HTC happens to be one of the biggest android-based manufacturers.
Can’t say I don’t take pleasure in seeing open source true believers complain about the big bad Apple when they used to complain about the big bad Microsoft, and yet their own business has gone nowhere. Maybe if you ruin capitalism, open source will work!
Ha! That’s a great example of rent-seeking behaviour. How successful companies soon turn to government to protect them from competition.
As the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would say:
Exactly.
Um no, open source has taken off for years. In fact, I suspect either the Mises Institute site runs on Linux or Unix/BSD. And why? BECAUSE IT’S FRACKING WORKS. Compared to say Windows Server, meh. Anyways, even Microsoft uses FreeBSD’s network stack in its code (LOL WUT?). So, open source isn’t communism, it’s standardization of software (note: even Richard Stallman said it was okay to sell source code even if it’s under GPL. All GPL states is make it available somewhere, like an FTP or whatever.).
I think you quoted the wrong person?
Not as a business.
Actually, Mises.org does run on Windows. While on the surface it is easy to disagree with their decision, I don’t think any of us are in a position to question their cost-benefit analysis.
And even though I wouldn’t exactly call them “Intellectual Communists” do NOT confuse supporters of the GPL with advocates for freedom. When they talk about “freedom” they usually mean “freedom for me, not for anyone else.” Many of them blame “Greed” for the problems of the software industry and even more of them get woodies at the thought of using legislation to criminalize things like charging money for software and using DRM. Of course this analysis doesn’t apply to all of them by my point is don’t be so quick to judge the likes of Stallman as “Champions of Capitalism.”
A business granted protections by the state is more profitable than a business without said protections? STOP THE PRESSES!!!
How did Apple ever succeed as a business against the overwhelming oppression of government?
Fantastic marketing?
Ironically enough, they might be better served using open-source software to run a site as complex as theirs.
Translation: serving the consumer.
How does any business do so?
Yeah. Red Hat is in terrible shape.
Wrong person, dude. I’m right there with you. IP is bunk.
They must be bad at marketing, because I don’t know any non-computer hardware geek that has ever heard of Red Hat.