On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Brad Lindsay <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > Yes, but we have a GUI. We are using a GUI *and* UNIX. That's my point; we took the best of both worlds. -- Jared Earle :: There is no SPORK [email protected] :: http://jearle.eu Hosting :: http://cat5.org Blog :: http://blog.23x.net
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