[BITList] This Mac devotee is moving to Linux

[John Feltham]

G'day Colin,

On 21/06/2010, at 11:55 PM, CT's wrote:

http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/06/20/from_mac_to_linux

> what a traitor - eh, john?

> This Mac devotee is moving to Linux 

Not really. 

What he is not telling us - and I accept that he knows what he is writing about, is that LINUX is a sub-set of UNIX. And in turn OS X, the operating system of the Apple, is also a sub-set of UNIX.

He also writes...

"Apple is pushing computer users as fast as it can toward a centrally controlled computing ecosystem"

I don't know if I am dense, but isn't that what Bill Gates has been doing to the whole World with his [touch wood] Micro$oft OS?

He also writes...

"where it (Apple) makes all the decisions about what native applications may be used on the devices it sells"

Again what he doesn't state, is that by doing this Apple ensures that all software will work on an Apple machine. Something that Micro$oft cannot achieve, as they do not manufacture a single computer for the market. Hence there is a huge amount of the "blue screens of death" around in the Micros$oft world.

I rest my case....



ooroo
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