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 !
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| 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:
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| 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.]
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| Will I Switch? · 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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