On Jan 19, 2008 4:38 PM, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On AD 2008 January 19 Saturday 02:42:23 PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: > > Um, that's not a religious decision. It's about freedom. I guess you > > wouldn't understand since you're OK with whatever Apple puts out.
I would consider that to be a religious thing, but I also see your point clearly, so we can agree to disagree on that. I do happen to be okay with _most_ of what Apple puts out. For example, I choose to use Pages over OpenOffice writer because Pages kicks OO writer in the teeth. There are a lot of apps that I use on my Mac that are free as in beer, but not free as in completely open. I use them A: because there is no FOSS alternative that I've yet seen and liked, and B: because I'm not willing to pay the premium price tag on Apple's alternatives. > > In that case I guess religion goes both ways. Similarly to what Michael > points out the freedom issue to me is about me doing with my computer > what I want in the way that I want/need whether it's changing the > desktop theme or modifying a kernel module or custom patching an > application. Before you say 'but on OS X you can do all those things > ...', you can't really do all of them. OS X isn't completely open > source and that's the deal breaker for me. I just don't want to use > software that doesn't allow me that freedom. That's my personal choice. > Obviously I'm not going to need all of my software to be open source to > have the same effect, but why settle for that? It may seem religious to > you but to me it is based on principle. Being based on principle is what I meant by "religious". As I said above, I've chosen to use what I consider works best for my needs, with a price cap based on the necessity of being a poor student. I'm not saying that either of our choices is better than the other, which is why--to me--it falls under the "religious debate" category. What I am saying is that in my experience, OSX has proven exceptional in speed, battery life, and utility (sleep/wake etc.). It has performed as well or better than the Linux/OSS equivalents I used until last year. I'm not an ardent supporter of closed source software, but I am willing to pay a little for software that best meets my needs (hence the fact that there are no Microsoft products in my collection besides the ones I'm forced to use for classes). -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
