What open source could learn from Apple

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 11/25/2008 - 19:50

Freedom is one thing, and we've got Richard Stallman to beat the freedom drum. But making products that people want to use is quite another, and equally difficult to accomplish (if not more so).

Steve Jobs is the person for counsel on that aspect of engineering.


 

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