David,

Can you please submit this to www.osopinion.com
I laughed my ass off!!!
Very good point, I hadn't thought of that!

nathan


> As long as we're ranting on this subject...
>
> Can sombody kindly explain to me how on the one hand Mr. Gates can assert
> with a straight face that the "browser" is an integral part of the
> operating system, and then explain how MS' Internet Explorer is
> more-or-less a "plugin" for Apple's operating system?  Like, if Apple had
a
> choice of browser (didn't they used to use Netscape?) and they got $175M
> from Bill to influence their decision, does that mean that IE is an
> integral part of OS-X now?  In that case, does MS perhaps now "own" OS-X?
>
> Oh, yeah, and what about their noise about being so paranoid about "open
> source" licensing and how it's a "cancer" and virtually forces you to open
> source EVERYTHING that touches it -- that would mean the fact that since
> OS-X is mostly open source (derived from BSD), it would force MS to open
> source the entire code base for IE!
>
> I think people should start making requests of this (give out the source
> code for IE) to MS muckey mucks who bad-mouth open source.  If what
they're
> saying is correct, they'll admit they have to give you the source.
> Otherwise, they might just correct themselves in public.
>
> -David Schwartz