On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Jared Earle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just go with the flow, right? Whether true or not, this is a weak >> argument. By the same logic, we should all get rid of our Macs and switch to >> Windows-based PCs, since that's "what everyone else is using", right? It >> doesn't matter if "the fight was lost ages ago". You can still choose to do >> the right thing. > > The analogue of PC vs Mac is absolutely nothing like this. A closer analogy > would be sticking with non-GUI OSes because UNIX is more powerful than OS9. > Pesky mouse!
Which explains why Apple's upgrade from the GUI-only OS 9 was to a UNIX OS? Sorry, I just found this analogy too ironic to be better then the original one. Maybe a better analogy can be found in how the HTML Standard is usually a description of what browser venders have already started doing? Brad _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
