Comments on: I’m Not a Mac #4–Control Issues: Why Apple Doesn’t Want You to Use Linux

By: Comments and Trust « dssstrkl

Comments and Trust « dssstrkl — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:19:24 +0000

[...] run on Macs is wrong, despite a court defending Apple’s right to do the same. I left a rather lengthy comment on his site, but I decided to just publish it again here. I just wanted to chime in and say that [...]

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Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:56:34 +0000

[...] solutions (iTunes, iPhoto, iAdinfinitum), promulgates a myth of reliability, and refuses to even acknowledge Linux–all the while marketing its overly expensive machines as the best solutions in the computing [...]

By: targz

targz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:51:28 +0000

You keep carping on about leaving Apple behind yet you predicate all your options on compatibility with your precious iPhone and iPod. You just don’t make sense.

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I’m Not a Mac #6–OS X Elements I’d Like to Take With Me — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:41:20 +0000

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By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:25:35 +0000

Well Paul (sorry for misspelling your name initially), note that that was my only criticism of your post. In fact, that was the first of only two comments I ever made in this blog (the second clarifying the first). I said nothing against any of your other points. I just wanted to correct the record. For that, you called me a “fanboi” on Twitter. This is the behavior that inflames these debates and causes people to throw up their hands at “Mac zealots” or whatever type of partisan that everyone decries. You probably got caught up in the heat of the argument. I can understand that. It can happen to all of us. But understand this — I don’t care about Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. I used them all. Frequently. I survived. And I don’t have any more attachment to them than I do to the program that operates the DVR in my cable box. Don’t question my motives, without better evidence.

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:48 +0000

Zed, I responded to your latest comment here. You're right, different strokes for different folks and no company is your close friend. More in my later response. Is that last line Linux humor? Like: "Make me a sandwich?" No. "Sudo, make me a sandwich." OK.

By: Zed

Zed — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:38:46 +0000

From my long history with both Windows and Mac I can say with certainty that Apple is doing nothing new that they have not always done. Neither is Microsoft. Both companies have ALWAYS tried to keep their users in their fold. Both companies have used their software to break competing software on their OSs.

It’s not criminal, it’s business. Don’t look back at some rosy past of Macintosh without talking to someone burned by the Mac IIFX.

Or Windows 95 and IE.

I hope you find your nirvana of open source freedom but I doubt it exists. I use all three platforms and all have their pluses and minuses. I prefer the Mac user experience but that’s just me.

sudo “what the hell do we need a command line for?”