On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > But Miguel's quote about OSX as being more refined or rather > appealing to developer community seems a bit exaggerated > to me. Most OSes provide "one" way to do things and > are somewhat locked-down in my opinion, and that includes > OSX too. Linux on the other hand - only serves as a base > platform for us (as in developers) to innovate and do things > the way we like it. > > The way I see it - Linux has created an ecosystem for > "power-users" to build, share and promote our ideas and > products. The so-called "desktop" paradigm is dying fast and > is going to vanish in the coming times (like MS-DOS, AmigaOS > did in the mid 90s) leading to appliance devices and apps > hosted on the cloud and accessible using web browsers. > Linux already has a good market share in these area and is > future-ready. >
Here is a pre-iPhone (March 2005) article talking about developers moving to the Mac - http://paulgraham.com/mac.html -- http://about.me/rosh _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
