Who's the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?

Over at daringfireball, John writes:


He does have a good technical case for why Apple might want to do this. His argument, more or less, is that Apple doesn’t need to be protective of the source to these apps (e.g. Mail, Safari, iCal, iChat) for competitive reasons, because they’re inextricably tied to Mac OS X technologies like Cocoa. If they released the source to iCal, it’s not like it would be that much of a help in allowing someone to port it or knock it off on Windows or Linux. It’d probably be easier to do a rip-off of these apps on another platform by completely re-implementing them rather than using their actual Cocoa source code.

<yoda>mmm, probably for some, probably not for others</yoda>