RE:The Apple way and the Linux way
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| rexbinary Jul 10, 2007 10:27 AM EDT |
Apparently the author doesn't realize you can set preferences on what you want Mac OS X to do, if anything, when you insert particular types of media. Gnome and KDE handle this the same way. Another thing the author doesn't realize is that Mac OS X is UNIX with a BSD userland. Had he opened up Terminal and installed a nice ports/repo system such as MacPorts or Fink, he could install anything he thinks is better from the 'Linux or BSD worlds'. |
| tuxchick Jul 10, 2007 1:47 PM EDT |
Jem is a twit. Or to be more precise, Jem spends too little effort on collecting facts. |
| Libervis Jul 10, 2007 3:04 PM EDT |
I think he has a good basic point, only backed with a rather bad example. For a good while I considered Macs and this whole Apple experience as a "golden cage" of sorts. It looks great, it feels great and it just works so flawlessly, but it's still a cage. Apple is still the boss. At least half of the operating system is still completely proprietary. You can't run it on any computer. You can't change the underlying OS to do a different thing. You can't be sure there's no DRM in there nor can you be sure Apple wont put something as malicious in there if it fits their interests. So yeah, it does have the usual disadvantages of proprietary software which can be summed up in simply - less control by the user, more control over the user. So where the line between user being in control and the Apple being in control is drawn, is another subject and perhaps Jem's article drew it a bit off. My problem is there being such a line in the first place. If I paid for it, I control it. Period. Free Software gives me that. Nothing else does. |
| gus3 Jul 10, 2007 9:21 PM EDT |
"Jem spends too little effort on collecting facts." And too little effort pondering the collected facts. The anti-GPLv3 article was just waaaaay off-base. |
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