why not OS X?

[George Mogiljansky]

Sorry, Chris. You're a nice guy, burned me a copy of
YD 2.1 (couldn't get it to dial-up on my Beige G3,
though).
The difference between Uncle Bill and SJ is far more
than that. There isn't enough bandwidth to go into
details. (The proposed and soon to be executed
download limits in Canada are (I really hope not) the
greatest threat to the 'Net and thousands of jobs).
 OSX (to stay on topic) is SJ's back door attempt to
usurp Linux (he offered L.Torvalds a 'job', who
refused, but another lesser light from the Open Source
crowd did join Apple). The NeXT experience (mostly
black ops for the US govt.) is now a consumer product.
M$ gets to copy the ideas dreamt up by Apple (almost
for free  - give or take $150 million by Billy to
stave off bankruptcy).
Life goes on - except for the download limits.
Sorry if I ramble..
George (who never bought a Mac that SJ signed off on)
  
--- Christopher Murtagh
<christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, will taggart wrote:
> >In OS X i have no hardware problems, I can listen
> to my mp3s, I could
> >watch DVDs if I had a player, I have access to an
> exploding number of
> >bsd ports, text looks 1000% better on OS X (and
> this is important since
> >I am a writer/graduate student), my modem and
> ethernet work just fine,
> >etc, etc.
> 
>  Then why are you using Linux? Linux is an operating
> system for people who
> want/need to change the way it behaves. It is by far
> a more scaleable
> operating system than OS X will ever hope to be
> (Linux runs on i386
> hand-helds to 24 CPU Sparc machines). If you find it
> a pain, there's a
> simple solution... don't use it cuz it isn't for
> everyone, nor does it
> need to try to be for everyone.
> 
>  User friendly is great for my mother, but my mother
> and I have very
> different needs for our computers. I don't
> particularily like waiting 10
> seconds to load a web page that loads in less than 1
> on just about any
> other platform.
> 
> 
>
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/user-friendly.html
> 
> > So what is the point? I personally hope that Jobs
> and co.
> >release OS X x86 and take over the world. But who
> asked me?
> 
>  Steve Jobs is just another Bill Gates that failed
> at dominating the
> market.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 


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