| <johanbr> I think if Apple had opensourced their whole OS a couple of years ago, they could have attracted many of the people who were drawn to linux. It may be too late now, though. | |
| <johanbr> Also, I don't know how Apple's revenue is divided between hardware and software. | |
| <Burgundavia> apple makes most of the their money off hardware | |
| <Burgundavia> their ipods are a cash cow, as are their computers | |
| <Burgundavia> basically, going open source really offers them nothing | |
| <johanbr> A community of hackers working on their os for free? | |
| <Burgundavia> vs. loss of all thei rhardware profit | |
| <Burgundavia> ? | |
| <jamonation> they released the darwin kernel for a while | |
| <jamonation> which fizzled | |
| <jamonation> their market isn't coders and hackers | |
| <johanbr> Burgundavia: Oh, right. I didn't think about that part. :) | |
| <Burgundavia> the darwin communtiy failed because apple doesn't care | |
| <Burgundavia> massive code drops do not a community make | |
| <jamonation> because apple doesn't have to care | |
| <Burgundavia> this is something they learned with webkit | |
| <Madpilot> hi all | |
| <dennister> hey ppls | |
| <Madpilot> evening dennister | |
| <dennister> how's it goin? been kinda off the scene lately, what with my move and tech troubles | |
| <dennister> i take it the improved logo for ubuntutoronto was your work? | |
| <Madpilot> nope, someone in TO must have done it | |
| <dennister> oh, ok...not too different from your good work, anyway :) | |
| <dennister> i actually came into irc to see if lophyte was online, but i guess it's a saturday night and he's with his gf, where all good bf's should be, and to check out my new irc channel sign-in...pretty neat that i get announced by teksavvy, not the real isp :) | |
| <Madpilot> teksavvy is a proxy service? | |
| <Madpilot> It's Monday for me, my working week is Sat-Weds currently... | |
| <dennister> perhaps...not sure...my real isp is a wholesaler for teksavvy, who supplies/provisions the dsl lines for us | |
| <Madpilot> ah, OK. If you want to screen your IP entirely, Freenode can provide "unaffiliated" cloaks to anyone who asks | |
| <dennister> my new email addy is with my real isp...different from teksavvy...ooooooooo, i might want that, seeing as how i'm such a privacy nut and my ip is a static one | |
| <Madpilot> !cloaks | |
| <dennister> i thought i was told that i had to become a Ubuntu member to get a full cloak? | |
| <Madpilot> a Freenode unaff cloak isn't an Ubuntu thing, it's a just a freenode thing | |
| <Madpilot> meh, no bot in this channel | |
| <dennister> k...i'll check it out in another channel...thx | |
| <Madpilot> dennister, for unaff cloaks, and other info: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#cloaks | |
| <dennister> ty again :) | |
| <Madpilot> to get the full "ubuntu/member/$nick" cloak like I've got, you do need to be an Ubuntu Member. unaffs are available to anyone who asks a staffer. | |
| <dennister> k...i'm not crazy about memberships in general | |
| <dennister> but anyway, i should get going here...want to have tons of website content ready for the freenet's new site by Tues....ttyl | |
| <Madpilot> later, dennister | |
| <Madpilot> mneptok, ever had much to do with the Koumbit people in Montreal? | |
| *** woowoo_ is now known as woowoo | |
| <jamonation> hiya lophyte, dimeotane | |
| <lophyte> hey jamonation | |
| <jamonation> how are you finding the server now? | |
| <lophyte> haven't touched it lately | |
| <jamonation> pages are rendering much quicker now | |
| <lophyte> nice | |
| <lophyte> http://daylightfades.com/content/story.shtml?docid=6 | |
| <jamonation> or this look promisin as well: http://www.gtcomm.net/en/dedicated-server-web.php | |
| <Solver> "This manpage is useless, as it was thrown together on a train." | |
| <Solver> -- devilspie man page |