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["國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"]

Yes, the GUI is very impressive indeed, but like you've said, there's a
lot of open source software underneath.  My personal stance is that it's
not right for them to charge so much for an OS that's mostly built upon
other people's efforts.

David Aikema wrote:

>There may be a lot of open source software underneath, but what the
>user sees is basically an entire GUI system developed with a lot of
>attention paid to detail and upholding user interface standards
>platform-wide.  That's the part (of the OS) that's not open source,
>and a very nice part it is indeed.
>
>I suppose that the other component of your argument also leads back to
>the discussion a few days ago of whether or not widespread
>profitability can be realized from open source software.
>
>David
>
>On 5/27/05, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org> wrote:
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>
>>I don't know why they'd choose to pay for something that's built from
>>mostly open source freebies - Mac OSX doesn't come cheap too.
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