Christina identifies a troubling phenomenon: >.I'm pretty concerned with how successful at "freewashing" Apple > is as a corporation. Maybe I'm totally off the mark, but my sense is that > Mac has been promoting its products as hip & cool and, somehow, ethically > better than Windows. A lot of free software supporters scoff at using > Windows but are totally comfortable running OS X, and that worries me > (because clearly Ubuntu ftw).
Apple is in the appliance game. As a whole, it doesn't seem particularly interested in the kind of free-wheeling, all-purpose computing that would fit FC peeps. So what gives? Is it the apparent ease with which foss apps are ported? Is it the nice hardware? Is it the not-windows-ness? It's certainly not the cost! $$$, Kevin (Full disclosure, I use a Mac desktop machine at work, Windows for DJing, and various Linux flavors for everything else so I'm certainly no purist. Simply curious about the phenomenon.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
