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Re: Woz calls for a more open apple

Subject: Re: Woz calls for a more open apple
From: Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> The Mac is already "open" in the sense of what Woz seems to be complaining
> about. People can already add extra abilities via USB, Thunderbolt,
> Firewire, and on the Mac Pro there are PCI slots, extra drive bays, etc.

Yea but then you get into the hooey of "apple only" crap like special
hard disks and video cards, which wore out its welcome in the early
90's, let alone now that its just a PC with an open source based OS in
a shiny box

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