Comment So...what? (Score 1) 731
OS X puts a cool GUI on top of Unix, right? Which is what Windows did to MS-DOS to compete with the Mac (or just get GUI), no? Which is what KDE and GNOME have been trying to do for years, correct?
So if Apple and MS can do it, why not the "open source community" - the same people, presumably, who've built the server layer of the entire modern Internet: Apache, Linux, BIND, etc. Not to mention Perl, MySQL, PHP. Whatever...
Apple sucks. They've conned "artists", basically, they have minimal market share with an influential group in computer/Net/design circles, which they parlay into stock market survival. But they ripped off millions, me included, by charging triple for their hardware, and pulling that off by designer packaging and marketing - a Scully strategy from the '80s. I started out using Macs for DTP, and flipped when I found out that A) I could get more choice for a third of the price in PCs, and, B) within a year or two Photoshop, Quark, etc, ported to PC, were for my purposes, identical. And the Mac GUI is not easier than Windows if you don't know either.
I'm not a programmer/nerd/geek, so I stick to Win98 'cause I started with GUI, not command line. But I do mainly Net stuff, for years, working remotely on Linux/Apache, etc, etc. So it's all one continuous thing to me, really: Win on my end, merging into Linux/Apache, etc online (like Telnet in from a Win app, but I'm operating a Unix shell...)... MS I believe is "evil" because they're a big corp, and by definition they're trying to trap their consumers within their proprietary model at all costs, keep growing, monopolize - they don't have an expiry date like replicants in Blade Runner, so that's their nature. So I know I could have a way cooler OS than Windows. But Win works.
I've had 98 for 2-1/2 years on one main machine, installing HUNDREDS of every sort of demo, shareware, junk, and it's never melted down, no OS reinstall. Crash, and it restarts! I can find anything for it. And I can even run ancient programs. Unlike Apple.
Of course, most of the s/w could be ported/duplicated in a minute, if there was a Linux (or any other) core effective desktop GUI package to control it all. I don't feel like Win is a choice, it's just the by far the best of a bad lot. I'm ready to jump...
So, Apple is true to form with OS X...if you buy gadgets, feel self-conscious using a Palm IIIx these days, have had and broken a VAIO, well, I'm sure OS X is cool... A gadget.
Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's why someone doesn't just get on with the desktop Linux packaging!!!!! What's the problem?
BTW, last StarOffice was slow, but the latest OpenOffice seems pretty peppy. Dunno how well the MS FILTERS work both ways, but it seems pretty well like an MS Office replacement already...
So if Apple and MS can do it, why not the "open source community" - the same people, presumably, who've built the server layer of the entire modern Internet: Apache, Linux, BIND, etc. Not to mention Perl, MySQL, PHP. Whatever...
Apple sucks. They've conned "artists", basically, they have minimal market share with an influential group in computer/Net/design circles, which they parlay into stock market survival. But they ripped off millions, me included, by charging triple for their hardware, and pulling that off by designer packaging and marketing - a Scully strategy from the '80s. I started out using Macs for DTP, and flipped when I found out that A) I could get more choice for a third of the price in PCs, and, B) within a year or two Photoshop, Quark, etc, ported to PC, were for my purposes, identical. And the Mac GUI is not easier than Windows if you don't know either.
I'm not a programmer/nerd/geek, so I stick to Win98 'cause I started with GUI, not command line. But I do mainly Net stuff, for years, working remotely on Linux/Apache, etc, etc. So it's all one continuous thing to me, really: Win on my end, merging into Linux/Apache, etc online (like Telnet in from a Win app, but I'm operating a Unix shell...)... MS I believe is "evil" because they're a big corp, and by definition they're trying to trap their consumers within their proprietary model at all costs, keep growing, monopolize - they don't have an expiry date like replicants in Blade Runner, so that's their nature. So I know I could have a way cooler OS than Windows. But Win works.
I've had 98 for 2-1/2 years on one main machine, installing HUNDREDS of every sort of demo, shareware, junk, and it's never melted down, no OS reinstall. Crash, and it restarts! I can find anything for it. And I can even run ancient programs. Unlike Apple.
Of course, most of the s/w could be ported/duplicated in a minute, if there was a Linux (or any other) core effective desktop GUI package to control it all. I don't feel like Win is a choice, it's just the by far the best of a bad lot. I'm ready to jump...
So, Apple is true to form with OS X...if you buy gadgets, feel self-conscious using a Palm IIIx these days, have had and broken a VAIO, well, I'm sure OS X is cool... A gadget.
Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's why someone doesn't just get on with the desktop Linux packaging!!!!! What's the problem?
BTW, last StarOffice was slow, but the latest OpenOffice seems pretty peppy. Dunno how well the MS FILTERS work both ways, but it seems pretty well like an MS Office replacement already...
