![]() Apple isn’t going to give away what they are good at, no matter what you are hoping for, and that’s their interfaces. Apple can stomach the LGPL and MPL because they don’t mind contributing the underlying code back to the community (as they did with WebCore and Darwin). Most importantly, Apple isn’t going to do anything with the GPL. There was a big post a little while back saying that unless developers get involved, there is going to be no OS X OOo (X11 or native). As for OOo, currently it looks like 2.0 won’t even build for X11 on OS X never mind native. ![]() There have been a lot of people talking about how Apple should get involved with OOo and KOffice and porting them to OS X. It will be interesting to see if iWork is an “expanding” project. So, that really leaves a spreadsheet as the missing component. With FileMaker Pro out there, it seems assured Apple would not add a database program to iWork. OS X Panther still includes Internet Explorer in the default install, despite the stop in development and the advent of Safari. At least not in the sense of saying stuff like, “We’re challenging Microsoft Office here and now!! Rather he seems to introduce products, say how great they are, but not compare them too often to Microsoft products, thus avoiding head on clashes. Jobs makes bold proclamations about Apple products, but does not usually (if at all) directly challenge Microsoft. IWork does not seem to address the education market, so it seems to me AppleWorks will stay at least for that area. ![]() That is not a flame or even a criticism – it just seems to be the case. But, Jobs has neglected AppleWorks terribly and it seems he doesn’t much like anything that hasn’t come directly out of his return to Apple. It was long rumored that a complete re-write of AppleWorks was underway. ![]()
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