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Calum:
this is the only sort of conflict that matters on this site in my opinion.

mac users just CANNOT resist getting out their 1980s PC hater hats and making fun of all the PC using (or anything other than a mac using) linux/BSD/anything other than macOSX types.

Xyle, do you know why open source software is on the whole a ghood idea? well i won't bother to elaborate then, but if you do know then why are you treating us to this 'you're all as bad as microsoft anyway' bollocks.

i'll tell you why, insecurity. you can't imagine that apple computer is just as bad as microsoft (and let's face it, the only difference between apple and microsoft is the number of users of their product and some airy fairy idea of 'style'.

apple computer would be ecstatic if only they too could be convicted monopolists.

all you people who take the easy road of supporting the 'underdog' (ie apple computer) and poopooing all the 'PC users' (those of us who champion the (sometimes slower or less methodical) *right* way to do things) really should throw your sour grapes in the compost and get out of the 1980s.

and put away your fire extinguisher, none of that was flaming, just home truths.

flap:

quote:if i had developed the dopest graphical interface, and wanted people to keep buying my systems, i would never show anyone the code for aqua
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Then lets hope you never develop any software.

 
quote:i'll tell you why, insecurity.
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That's a good point. I personally would never primarily use that argument as it's an open source movement argument. There are far more important reasons why software should be Free and not just open, and these are reasons Apple cares for about as much as Microsoft does. Apple has jumped on the awful 'Open Source' bandwagon with their OS core by making it 'Open Source' but released under a restrictive licence that is not free.

This Apple-loving attitude of Mac users is something I find disturbing. Apple fanboys aren't much different from Microsoft fanboys, only the company they support hasn't behaved quite as badly as MS. As Calum says, Apple don't have a monopoly as Microsoft does, but it's not through want of trying.

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