Linux Journal: The New Economy Hack: Turning Consumers into Producers

“Last year, in his annual Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs made a
big deal about open source. He paced in front of a giant screen
that said ‘Open Source: We think it’s great,’ and he backed the
statement by announcing a new Apple browser based on the same KHTML
rendering engine as KDE’s Konqueror.

“I wrote the story up in ‘Surprise: Apple’s New Browser is a
Sister to Conqueror.’ It might not have been that huge a deal, but
I did expect to see some follow-up news in the next Macworld
keynote. After all, Apple had been talking up open source since it
announced the BSD-based OS X before the turn of the millennium.

“But there was nothing. Jobs talked up UNIX a bit and said that
a new RAID product was certified for varieties of Linux; but that
was it. The latest Konqueror News is what happened here a year
ago…”

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