On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: >> Freedom, and low cost, and robustness, and >> security, and choice, and all that good stuff. > > s/Linux/MacOSX/
Yes and no. MacOS X certainly has a number of selling points, several of which it shares with Linux, others which are unique. Apple has done a very nice job with human factors engineering, OS features, their bundled applications. Security is pretty good and certainly the OS itself is robust. But low cost? Freedom? You never really own a Mac -- you're just renting it from Steve Jobs. As someone said to me recently, "There can be more than one evil empire." > Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware. Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware and the software together, and they'll work well together. And there is something to be said for that. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
