On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:15:48PM -0700, Dennis Eberl wrote:

> That's interesting Larry. You see, I've been using a Mac so long (started 
> with a Lisa) that the desire to run any GUI other than that supplied by 
> Apple never even occurred to me.

One of my high school buddies, who has a degree in computer science
and has been doing digital photography/desktop publishing on Macs
since 1990 and currently works as a "new media" consultant, doesn't
use OSX.  He says it's too buggy and doesn't have good support for
video editing.  "I think I'll wait a bit longer before I switch."
He doesn't seem excited about OSX at all.

I guess once you find something that does what you want they way you
want it to, everything else pretty much sucks ... hmmm ... I think I
can relate ;)

And, of course, there's that "best tool for the job" thing.  Then again,
M$ has distributed enough innefficient crud and FUD to make people think
they need to "throw out the old computer because it's useless" and get
a gig processor to read email and surf the web.  Not that I'm against
technology "trickling down", it's just that a lot of good stuff ends
up in the dump, and chip manufacturing isn't exactly a "green industry".

Anyway, three cheers to Apple for helping to show that OpenSource works!

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