UPDATE: While I personally think that Apple has fast become the embodiment of closed. I respect CEOs who take risks. Plenty of CEOs (in fact all the ones I know) would never even think of insulting a past present or future vendor partner. For each CEO I Respect I can think of a moment that they were dead wrong.

Bill Gates said Linux would never be secure because people working for free in their spare time don't do good work. Then came the age where the would could not operate without the security that Linux provides.

Real quick post today. I apologize for not going too far in depth. There is lots going on and I am a blogger. That means a person, not just a PR factory that doesn't have to have editorial integrity because it's a blog. Any editorial integrity I lack is because of opinionated personal bias. Not a paycheck I just got from Nike. That brings me to my first reason:

1. The Blogosphere And Commercial Publishing Merged

In a recent blog post Hulu's CEO Jason Kilar spoke about why he pulled Hulu content from Boxee.
If you didn't know, Boxee.org is the free open source media center that rivals AppleTV and anything Microsoft could muster. It's socially aware (friend lists, twitter, statuses, see what friends are watching, watch it yourself etc) and it has some great content from some great providers. Ask me for an invite to the private alpha.