[OSX-Users] Re: Apple purging GPL?

[Chris Andrews]

On 30 Aug 2012, at 08:13, Luke Teacy <wtlt at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Only danger is, what else does it allow them to do? As much as I love my iOS devices, I'm in no hurray to see it running on my Mac - at least not in a way that prevents me bringing up a bash shell and doing most of the things I can do on Linux.

Starting from nothing and making a closed platform is a lot easier than taking an open platform and making it closed. Jailing OS X a la iOS is going to be almost impossible without some kind of get-out for developers, power users and people who like emacs.

Chris