Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th May 2006 15:00 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
"Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system. Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS."
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2005-06-29
Why would a scientist insist on open source OSes? O_o