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Why's this on this site?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 31, 2003 12:00 AM
Newsforge claims to be about "Linux and Open Source." Apple operating systems are not Linux, and the fact that some parts of them are open source does not make the operating systems open source, any more than Micro$oft sticking BSD code in their pieces of crap makes said pieces of crap open source (even if they were to release their changes). If a review of the latest $2,500 Macintosh is wanted one would generally go to an Apple fanatic website. Articles like this shouldn't be on a website devoted to "Linux and Open Source." And no, just because some people that come to this site might find it interesting it's no less out of place; articles on absolutely anything will interest some of the people that come to this website, but that doesn't make articles on absolutely anything topical. Newsforge is supposed to be about "Linux and Open Source." Apple's operating systems are neither.

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