By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

We'd like to let anybody run any operating system (OS) on any machine. You'll be able to buy any application you want and not worry what OS it runs on.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

We are doing this for the public, because the frequencies used by TV stations are public domain. So we have to make sure that the TV stations are serving the public and not their own business interests. We also followed up on the complaints we received from the public.