Jwala, FOSS is dead from years in this mailing list. wish long live FOSS,,,,
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
