On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:47:31 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > That's an obnoxiously silly comparison. MacOS X is a for pay product > that encompasses non open software elements which are developed in a > highly closed process. apples to oranges comparison. It's an operating system that supports third party and commercial development yet it's clearly not stagnating: if anything it's moving faster than the Linux community is. So my point was your theory about supporting commercial software causing stagnation can't be correct, because there is a fairly obvious counter-example. What is silly about that?