--- "David M. Ensteness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eh, yeah, but you can always say that about > anything, nothing is ever > what it really should be in its first revision or > so. <<<< well, now, since Jag is such a departure/evolution compared to pre-Jag, where did it come from? >>>
> > Funny no-one mentioned Java > > - still not included in X, and the judge in the M$ > > case is considering Sun's request to 'force' M$ to > > include Java in Windows (imagine that!). > > Uhm, JAVA is included in Mac OS X, has since the > Public Beta, in fact > 10.0 used JAVA 2.0, the first OEM OS to do so ... > Jaguar uses the most > current JAVA version. I swear you and I talked about > this before, don't > you develop JAVA? If I recall your past complaint > was that Apple was > not maintaining up-to-date JAVA on Mac OS X > v.10.1.x, and that is a > completely valid contention. > > > Letting snippets of X be OpenSource - what next? A > GNU > > licence for Jaguar (since Quartz Extreme already > > existed 6 months prior to Jag's release - you pay > > shareware $10). > > Ah, who told you that Quartz Extreme was OpenSource? > Or is this just a made up example? <<<<<< try here: www.pollet.net/GLterm >>>>>> > > > And Red Hat's stock has taken off recently - > finally > > the chickens come home to roost. > > I think you need to revise you theory a little, but > RedHat's success is > good for Apple and Macintosh as a platform, Linux > and UNIX [Mac OS X > included] work well together, YAY for > Linux, YAY for UNIX, YAY for Mac OS X. <<< I agree, but for the price of one iMac (flat screen), you get 3 or 4 Dell towers with CRT screen, same amount of Ram and HDD space and maybe a CDRW if on special. Apple - quo vadis? George ===== "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself." Quoted from St Luke, 10:27. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
