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Quite true; ultimately, open vs. closed is a complex spectrum, not a binary true/false. Apple has earned a reputation of being completely closed, to the point t
by lukifer 16y ago
Quite true; ultimately, open vs. closed is a complex spectrum, not a binary true/false. Apple has earned a reputation of being completely closed, to the point that I still hear people express surprise at, say, Macs opening Word docs from a PC.
- tommorris 16y agoPeople think Apple is completely closed because they can't open a proprietary binary format produced by a closed-source Microsoft Windows application on it? By the same reasoning, my Ubuntu Linux installation is closed because it doesn't - as far as I'm aware - have a way of opening Apple's proprietary Keynote format. ;-)
- hexley 16y agoProprietary? It's a renamed .tar.gz file containing any resources used inside the presentation and an XML file describing it's layout. And yes, I noticed the ;).