| >When designing something as complex as a car, form and function need to be equally considered every step of the way. That's not how apple did it. Apple took an existing operating system that really only considered function, freebsd, and then built something pretty on and around it. I mean, I'm not criticizing apple; they followed the rules and built something the FreeBSD team could not have built, and most FreeBSD guys I know are pretty happy with what apple did. If you were going with the apple model for these cars, what you'd do is first build ugly cars that take an expert to drive that are extremely fast, utilitarian and reliable, but licence them under the BSD licence. Next, have some for-profit company take the design, put a lot of effort in to making it look nice, add features that make it easy for a novice to drive, and then sell the new cars for a whole lot of money. I mean, it's a great idea, but you need the FreeBSD of cars before you can have the Apple of cars. |