On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:01 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > 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. > Okay, we're off-topic pretty badly where this discussion is going. take it offlist if you want to bicker about osx vs linux. thanks. -sv