Hi Yuri, you wrote:
>
> DB> Now, there's OSX and, with the bugs worked out, it easily wins on
style
> DB> points and - hopefully - will help destabilize Billie Gates' dystopian
Borg
> DB> Empire's attempted hegemony, its imitative, bloated and (previously)
> DB> deliberately-broken crapola. But don't bet on it just yet, as it's a
very
> DB> popular bloated crapola - if only by default - aimed at the lowest
common
> DB> denominator, so bashing "pee-cee'ers" is.... /really/ old.
>
> It's not gonna be me or you or OS X. It's gonna be lawyers ;).
> By opposing something you support it.
Not if you take time to counter M$ FUD, in the trenches. The Internet has
left M$ with no place to hide.
> How many of us were
> despising Win? And what did the market shares of Win, Mac, UNIX
> did during that time? Let it fall burdened by its own weight.
That's what many say, but why not give it some help. MacOSX may have some
effect as an alternative corporate OS, but Win is entrenched. Long term I
agree it will be regulators, lawyers, and legitimate competition from Linux
and other open source projects.
If Apple went quasi-open source for pieces of its s/w it may make major
inroads. Then again, we'll see a continuing trend of govt. and other
entities moving to GPL'd s/w for their cost and flexibility. That's not Mac.
>
> As for OS X, I don't see a big point to pay 5 times for a piece
> of proprietory hardware to run Apache on it. Besides, it's still
> a beta.
Agreed, if you're well-situated in Linuxland, with the light-speed KDE and
Gnome interface improvements that have occurred, there's little reason to
/switch/ to OSX for interface or functional reasons. Besides, you'd usually
run Apache headless, right?. As I'm still interested in OSX, I'll be playing
more than one hand here.
Later!
Dick.
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