Mac OS X Leopard: $129, closed source Ubuntu: $0, Open Source Is there any competition here? hellllloooo, isn't this FOSS mailing list??
~jwalanta On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ankur Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dudes, > Too much of OSX here, I am sick , even being a OSX user myself I am not in > mood of removing beloved ubuntu I have in other partition which I use as > frequently. My first love with apple was due its hardware rather than > software, later I liked few ideas implemented neatly there, I liked there > development platform Xcode too. But when it comes to freedom and power to > fiddle with inner layers and do even a simple tricks like changing mac > address I found restriction, my OSX dock is filled almost with open source > apps like inkscape, vlc, neooffice ,firefox, virtualbox etc. I was amazed > when I couldn't write to ntfs partition and access my ext3 partitions. more > over that OSX do not come bundled with hands on solution for documentation > and authoring tools as in most of the OSS distros. > What I believe is you shouldn't be fundamentalist, and choose solutions > wisely, there is no point in comparing OS that comes with >$1000 hardware > and OS on free CD shipped to your home, except if you want to improve the > feature of later by adding features like automator or time machine of > former, or want to make less fortunate people more miserable. Btw, there are > way cooler linux based hardware devices that apple fanboys cannot even dream > of. > The single motive of this mailing list is to promote freedom and equal right > of technology ownership to fortunate and unfortunate human beings on both > side of digital divide. Lastly the coolness of OSX is to learn something > form , not to imitate elitism in our lifestyle. I ask one question to tech > literate OSX fans: Is there any feature in OSX that cannot be imported to > other OSes , or Is there anything you can do with OSX machine that you > cannot do accomplish on Free Software? well that was two question :) > Ankur. > On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:55 PM, suVasH..... wrote: > > Well, to me the choice depends on how thick my wallet is , > > More bucks ---> more polish ! > > I'd also like to buy a 4x4 monster truck someday, ( wouldn't mind if it > wasn't open source and still run over everything ) > > That's most of what i have to say, OSX is hell good :) > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Ujwal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I don't know why are we not reading the Topic of this thread. >> it's Linux OR OsX. >> The logical OR (or) signifies you have a selection. It's not logical AND >> and you have both option as selection. >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Ujjwol लामिछाने[UNIX] >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> i love linux kernel and OSX GUI (wow) >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Ujwal Shrestha >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
