[CS-FSLUG] Proprietary Software: Capitalism or Greed?

[Jukka]

On 3/20/06, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
[snip]
> Or, consider Apple. Darwin's kernel was FOSS, but lately, Apple has
> quit releasing the x86 versions under  the FOSS Darwin Project
> umbrella. Why? Because they cannot afford to aid those who would use
> that FOSS code to undermine the sales of the products (hardware) that
> pays the developers for that code (by learning ways to circumvent the
> protection module that keeps Mac OS X from running on generic PC's
> illegally). Maybe that's greed, but if I like Mac OS X, it is in my
> interest to insure that those developers keep getting paid.
[snip]

Isn't this exactly the same scenario where Microsoft started (except
that they were not hardware vendors..) -> people liked their Windows
operating system, they became a monopoly and now (because of greed?)
they try to force the whole industry under their control? :)

Jukka