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[News] On Escaping Apple's Lockin, and Leopard Release Delays

Leopard delay is really bad news for me

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| I'm getting sick of being locked into Apple apps--I use Apple Mail
| because I want Spotlight (Linux alternative) and Keychain support
| (no alternative), Safari (+Saft) is more Mac-like but Firefox is
| more flexible, iPhoto is meh.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Meanwhile Ubuntu Feisty is right here, right now, and really
| darn tempting.
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http://agblog.com/entry/2333


Related:

Apple to delay release of Leopard operating system

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| Apple said that the full version of Leopard wouldn't ship until October
| due to delays caused by the company needing to put the finishing touches
| on the iPhone.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/apple-delay-release-leopard-operating/story.aspx?guid=%7BEC0B70D2%2D922D%2D4520%2D9B9D%2DD64AC7BEBEC3%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2hkr5d


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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? · 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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