Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
Tim O'ReillyAnyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
Tim O'ReillyApple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
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