Re: Still dreaming of GS/OS 7.0

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <7961e1f9.0304170703.73de4f2b@posting.google.com>, vector
<isbat1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> When's the last time someone hassled Apple for the rights to GS/OS and
> its source code?  It seems like they really shouldn't care anymore,
> since they're clearly not profiting from sales.  I mean, they
> literally give it away on their FTP site.  It's sort of funny; the
> only reason I can imagine them not releasing the code at this point
> would be to protect some secret of modern Mac OS features that is
> still buried inside GS/OS somewhere.

Possibility 2, there may be licensed code within they are unable to
release.

Possibility 3, they may not want to deal with the support issues such a
release would inevitably give rise to. Even if all you do is tell
callers "that's not our build, we don't support it" you've paid for
their call to the toll-free number, consumed one of your first-line
support resources for a few seconds and contributed marginally to
customer ill-will.

Just alternative possible explanations, mind you. I'd also like to see
it happen.

G