Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987658

by _feda_ • 14 years ago

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kaolinite• 14 years ago

Tomorrow? Nothing. A few months later however - after all the security holes have been fixed and malware attacks have died down - I'd buy a Mac.

jstanley• 14 years ago

Mostly indifferent: I'm perfectly happy running Ubuntu. Of course, I'm always happy to see previously-closed source become available.

Piskvorrr• 14 years ago

Incredulous, this being one of the most locked-down ecosystems. I'd suspect a legal trap, incompleteness (see: nVidia) or obfuscation.

jentulman• 14 years ago

I'd be looking forward to being able to run my favourite desktop on 'proper' linux on hardware of my choice. Once someone's finished creating the inevitable Obuntu distribution that is.

zoowar• 14 years ago

Few would continue to overpay for Apple hardware.

_feda_• 14 years ago

Do you really think so? If the software remained largely unchanged, I don't think it would make a lot of difference to their business generally, and people who buy macs wouldn't experience much of a difference. As far as I understand, companies like samsung and htc make huge amounts of money purely from selling hardware that runs (mostly) open source android.

canes123456• 14 years ago

I call bullshit. High end Sony and ThinkPad laptops are the only laptops that match up to MacBooks in terms of screen, size, battery life, keyboard, trackpad, design, and durability. They are not cheaper.

sp332• 14 years ago

Sweet! I'd immediately snag some of their code for use in my own projects. There would be so many feature requests and patches written by other people. I'd probably make a custom build of the OS with some of the interesting mods.

Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?

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