Important? Only if you do sound or graphics work.
And even then Mac has lost ground.
The Mac has more market share than Linux which I could say at the
same time is just used in call centers and the like. The Mac is in
fact gaining ground all the time. You are still thinking about the
Mac in the 1990s.
Mac is a BSD clone. BSD is a variant of Unix. Linux is another
variant of Unix.
The way most people use Linux - (Gnome, KDE) and the way most people
use Macs, they are very different. If Linux changes the way it uses
the UNIX foundation to get it to work like Mac OS X than it will be a
totally different beast. Compare X-Windows to Aqua - very different
design.
There is a reason why Microsoft Office is availble for the Mac -
not only does
Microsoft make money off of it,
a) How much does Apple pay to Microsoft for Microsoft to deliver
MSo on an Apple platform?
b) When does that Microsoft contract expire?
c) When do the poison pill provisions of that contract expire?
It's not a matter of contract - its a matter that it helps Microsoft.
Sun has no experience in the Apple market. To gain competency in
that area,would require losing compentency in their current core
areas.
I can respect it. If they don't have the code ready for prime time,
then why be negative on NeoOffice. When Sun delivers a better
product, people will change to the official OpenOffice.org branch. If
you think the interface doesn't matter or can't tell the difference
between X-Windows and Aqua, then you will never understand why people
use Macs and are so loyal to Apple.
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