Only a complete idiot would dump a professionally written and supported
operating system like OSX for a bug riddled, half baked operating system
like Ubuntu.
Apple users like to USE their systems and applications.
Linux users worship the operating system and long for the day when
application support will catch up.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:21:16 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Open Source vs. Mac vs. Windows
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> | My computer of choice is a Macintosh with Mac OS X v. 10.3, Panther,
> | loaded with Apple applications. At first sight, some users may think
> | that it is as proprietary as you can get. But if you look closer you
> | will see that I also use OpenOffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla
> | Firebird, Camino, KOffice, Chatzilla? and that all of this sits on
> | a standards-based, open source operating system !
> |
> | Why ? Because I think that open source truly shines when it can be
> | combined with proprietary solutions, in an elegant way.
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> http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2004/02/open_source_vs_mac_vs_windows.html
>
> Related:
>
> Bye, Apple; Hello, Ubuntu
>
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> | Mark Pilgim, the writer and programmer behind the Dive Into Mark blog,
> | recently published a list of things he bought this weekend, including a
> | Lenovo (IBM) ThinkCentre M52 with an IBM staff discount. As he notes in
> | his Bye, Apple post:
> |
> | Astute readers will notice that this marks the end of my 22-year
> | love affair with Apple. I actually went to the local Apple store this
> | weekend -- checkbook in hand -- to decide between the new Mac mini,
> | MacBook, and MacBook Pro. I walked out without buying any of them.
> | Bye, Apple. Thanks for the memories.
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> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/06/04/bye_apple_hello_ubuntu.html
>
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> | Early this month, Mark Pilgrim made waves when he went shopping for a
> | new Mac, but decided not to buy one, and, in When the bough breaks, wrote
> | at length about switching to Ubuntu. I've been thinking about this a
> | lot recently, and now John Gruber's written And Oranges, a fine excursus
> | on Mark?s piece. I'm pondering the switch away myself, too, and maybe
> | sharing my thoughts will be helpful. [Update: Lots of feedback on the
> | state of the Ubuntu art.] [Update: More from Mark. I feel sick,
> | physically nauseated, that Apple has hidden my email--the record of
> | my life--away in a proprietary undocumented format. I've had this happen
> | once before (the culprit was Eudora); fool me twice, shame on me. Hear
> | a funny sound? That's a camel's back, breaking.]
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Will I Switch? Â Yes. For Mark?s reasons, and because I'm pretty darn
> | sure that either Ubuntu or some other distro will eventually get the
> | key things right.
> |
> | Alternatively, Apple could open-source a few of their apps so we could
> | all fix the pain points, and they could start having an actual
> | conversation with the world. Nothing less is acceptable.
> |
> | As John Gruber points out, neither Mark nor I are exactly typical.
> | But you know what? I think that if the GNU/Linux/Solaris community
> | can sustain its current level of energy and progress, and if Apple
> | maintains its dysfunctional communications culture, there are going to
> | be better choices just not for me, but for a lot of other people too.
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> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/15/Switch-From-Mac
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