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
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