osOpinion: OS X Open Source: Now Lets Watch as the Others Play Follow the Leader

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 21, 1999

Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
writes:

The Wintel Empire had been playing follow the leader with Apple
in the early 80’s. There may have been a slowdown of this bahavior
in the 90’s which had caused alot of Wintel advocates to think the
roles were reversed, but now that Apple has released OS X Servers
code and joined the open source revolution, those Mac users that
remained loyal now have yet another reason to remain proud of their
favored computer fruit company.

“People have been hoping dreaming and speculating on the
possability of a mainstream open source operating system for years
now, and after all this waiting hoping and dreaming we’re finally
here!”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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