"Hubbard is one of the leaders of the open-source software movement, along with guys like the legendary Linus Torvalds, cocreator of Linux. Their goal is to supplant traditional software with powerful programs that come with raw computer code and programming tools, so skilled users can modify the software themselves."
According to his opinion Apple is the first manufacturer, which combines the advantages of a commercial operating system (fixed GUI guidelines, protection and advancement etc. guarrateed) with those of the OpenSource Community. That was basically the reason, why Hubbard had asked for a job with Apple.
You can read the whole article on the following link.
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/upgrade/2001/1213.html
According to his opinion Apple is the first manufacturer, which combines the advantages of a commercial operating system (fixed GUI guidelines, protection and advancement etc. guarrateed) with those of the OpenSource Community. That was basically the reason, why Hubbard had asked for a job with Apple.
You can read the whole article on the following link.
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/upgrade/2001/1213.html