From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 16 11: 7:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A11337B401 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA70504 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.168.205] (cerberus [192.168.168.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5GI8VK27157 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20010616080451.84356.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:58:20 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rich Morin Subject: [Apple]RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2:35 PM +0200 6/16/01, Brad Knowles wrote: >They're still a world apart, and seem to be weathering the economic >downturn far better than any other PC manufacturer I know: I was at the press conference in Cupertino when Apple announced the release of Mac OS X. One of the questions was how Apple was going to deal with the economic downturn. Steve responded that Apple was in the fortunate position of having a couple of billion dollars on hand and no real debt, so they planned to sail right through it, doing the long-term things they needed to do. Speaking for myself, I am happy to pay Apple a bit extra if it allows them to do the kind of R&D that produces nice machines and OSes, stay out of trouble in recessions, etc. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message