Re: [PLUG] Without OS X

Chris Hedemark <chris@yonderway.com> · Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:52:48 -0500

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On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 11:34 AM, christophe barbe wrote:
I see nothing in OS-X that would lead me to give up on my freedom. You
can find the GUI nice but I find it very limited for a power user.

Looking back further in the thread, you will find I've already 
enumerated several such frustrations with OS X.
For those who believe that Apple is now a model of free software
friendly company, they should look closer[2].

For the record, I see them as more of a consumer of free software than 
a contributor (though they *do* contribute to some extent)
For me the bigger
contribution Apple is making to the Free Software is by relying on it
for major part of its OS (BSD core, Apache, Samba) and not by
contributing to KDE via Safari.

There are a lot of other projects that they are contributing to. It's 
worth mentioning their Rendezvous stuff which appears to be 
unencumbered by patents (AFAIK) and is a well documented protocol. 
This is something that Linux and *BSD distributions can get up to speed 
on quickly as documentation is readily available.
Right now OS X sort of fills a niche that Linux hasn't quite grown into 
yet. The freedom of Linux does have its downsides, including the lack 
of any meaningful integration of software components or software with 
hardware. I *can* do many of the same things in Linux that I can do in 
OS X but in Linux it is sometimes made a lot more convoluted than it 
needs to be. The three words you will hear a lot from OS X users is 
"it just works".
Chris Hedemark
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