[brlug-general] Apple

[Dustin Puryear]

See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look
here:

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-appl
e.html

 

I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.

 

If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let
them slug it out.

 

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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Brad Bendily]

i thought they were already in the thunder dome with google. i've seen
a few blows, but nothing
fatal either way.



On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear
 wrote:
> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look here:
>
>
>
> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>
>
>
> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>
>
>
> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let them
> slug it out.

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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Karthik Poobalasubramanian]

Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as Jobs heads 
Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I am happy to see that 
Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for the Mobile Phone/App market Also, 
Microsoft and google are having a turf war for web search. 

Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer electronics 
company than a computer manufacturer. 

So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change the default 
web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html




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On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look here:
>  
> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>  
> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>  
> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let them 
> slug it out.
>  
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Brad Bendily]

meh.
before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
every time I reload windows I have to change
the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need money too.

ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
the ubuntu bandwagon?
it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
 wrote:
> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as Jobs heads 
> Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I am happy to see that 
> Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for the Mobile Phone/App market Also, 
> Microsoft and google are having a turf war for web search.
>
> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer electronics 
> company than a computer manufacturer.
>
> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change the 
> default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>
>
>
>
> --
> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
> kart...@poobal.net
> kart...@la.gov
> (225) 341-5855
> skype: poobal
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look here:
>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>>
>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>>
>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let them 
>> slug it out.
>>
>> ---
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>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Jordan Scott]

And for my first ever reply after years of lurching, I give you Brad Bendilly, 
the master of answering his own questions:

"ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
the ubuntu bandwagon?
it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic."

Dumbed down = what people want.




- Original Message 
From: Brad Bendily 
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 1:59:27 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Apple

meh.
before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
every time I reload windows I have to change
the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need money too.

ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
the ubuntu bandwagon?
it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
 wrote:
> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as Jobs heads 
> Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I am happy to see that 
> Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for the Mobile Phone/App market Also, 
> Microsoft and google are having a turf war for web search.
>
> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer electronics 
> company than a computer manufacturer.
>
> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change the 
> default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>
>
>
>
> --
> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
> kart...@poobal.net
> kart...@la.gov
> (225) 341-5855
> skype: poobal
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look here:
>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>>
>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>>
>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let them 
>> slug it out.
>>
>> ---
>> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/
>> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On
>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
>>
>> Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers"
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Keith Stokes]

I think the concept is that Ubuntu is dumbed-down and minimalistic to  
the degree that a normal computer user might be able to actually  
install and use it.

It's got amazing hardware drivers too.  I've had it work on brand-new  
hardware when no other "normal" distros would work.

On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:

> meh.
> before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
> cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
> but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
> ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
> is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
> every time I reload windows I have to change
> the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need  
> money too.
>
> ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
> the ubuntu bandwagon?
> it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>  wrote:
>> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as  
>> Jobs heads Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I  
>> am happy to see that Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for  
>> the Mobile Phone/App market Also, Microsoft and google are having a  
>> turf war for web search.
>>
>> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer  
>> electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
>>
>> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change  
>> the default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>> kart...@poobal.net
>> kart...@la.gov
>> (225) 341-5855
>> skype: poobal
>>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>
>>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles.  
>>> Look here:
>>>
>>> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>>>
>>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>>>
>>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and  
>>> let them slug it out.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/
>>> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On
>>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
>>>
>>> Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers"
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Shannon Roddy]

For me, it's that it just freaking works.  No hardware issues, minimal
install on the server version so I get only what I want.  5 years support
for LTS server.

Don't get me started on Redhat/centos being years out of date... OpenLDAP
bugs that have been fixed for a *long* time are still broken in CentOS
current.  I know their main target is a stable platform on redhat
enterprise/CentOS, but jeeze... fix the bugs.  I don't like having to
compile from source unless I have to, and all too often, using CentOS means
having to compile.  Take postfix... I had to modify the spec file for the
RPM to include MySQL support and rebuild.

Ubuntu does what I want, when I want, and has reasonably current packages.
And it's still debian linux more or less, so I can edit config files to
customize it to do what/when I want the way I want.

Rant over.  :P

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Keith Stokes  wrote:

> I think the concept is that Ubuntu is dumbed-down and minimalistic to
> the degree that a normal computer user might be able to actually
> install and use it.
>
> It's got amazing hardware drivers too.  I've had it work on brand-new
> hardware when no other "normal" distros would work.
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:
>
> > meh.
> > before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
> > cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
> > but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
> > ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
> > is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
> > every time I reload windows I have to change
> > the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need
> > money too.
> >
> > ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
> > the ubuntu bandwagon?
> > it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
> >  wrote:
> >> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as
> >> Jobs heads Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I
> >> am happy to see that Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for
> >> the Mobile Phone/App market Also, Microsoft and google are having a
> >> turf war for web search.
> >>
> >> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer
> >> electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
> >>
> >> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change
> >> the default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
> >> kart...@poobal.net
> >> kart...@la.gov
> >> (225) 341-5855
> >> skype: poobal
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> >>
> >>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles.
> >>> Look here:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
> >>>
> >>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
> >>>
> >>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and
> >>> let them slug it out.
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/
> >>> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On
> >>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Karthik Poobalasubramanian]

To me, Ubuntu is not really dumbed down but it is minimalistic which helps 
"normal" users. In any case, it's basically Debian flavored distro. Even though 
I switched from Ubuntu to a OS X couple of years ago, my parents have been 
running Ubuntu since 2007. They actually apply the updates on their computers 
and I keep an eye on it remotely. Before ubuntu it was very difficult to find 
drivers for hardware esp. in India and we had to reinstall Windows every couple 
of months 'cause my folks will somehow manage to get it infected. 


Karthik


On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Jordan Scott wrote:

> And for my first ever reply after years of lurching, I give you Brad 
> Bendilly, the master of answering his own questions:
> 
> "ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
> the ubuntu bandwagon?
> it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic."
> 
> Dumbed down = what people want.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message 
> From: Brad Bendily 
> To: general@brlug.net
> Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 1:59:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Apple
> 
> meh.
> before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
> cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
> but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
> ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
> is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
> every time I reload windows I have to change
> the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need money too.
> 
> ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
> the ubuntu bandwagon?
> it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>  wrote:
>> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as Jobs heads 
>> Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I am happy to see that 
>> Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for the Mobile Phone/App market 
>> Also, Microsoft and google are having a turf war for web search.
>> 
>> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer 
>> electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
>> 
>> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change the 
>> default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>> kart...@poobal.net
>> kart...@la.gov
>> (225) 341-5855
>> skype: poobal
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> 
>>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles. Look here:
>>> 
>>> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>>> 
>>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>>> 
>>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and let them 
>>> slug it out.
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/
>>> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On
>>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Warren "Tray" Torrance]

I'm inclined to agree with Shannon.

I mostly favor a debian-based OS, and Ubuntu is easy enough for my friends
and family to use, customizable enough for me. The last version or two are
starting to go in some directions I don't like, but nothing to do with the
search engines.

Warren "Tray" Torrance


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 14:47, Shannon Roddy  wrote:

> For me, it's that it just freaking works.  No hardware issues, minimal
> install on the server version so I get only what I want.  5 years support
> for LTS server.
>
> Don't get me started on Redhat/centos being years out of date... OpenLDAP
> bugs that have been fixed for a *long* time are still broken in CentOS
> current.  I know their main target is a stable platform on redhat
> enterprise/CentOS, but jeeze... fix the bugs.  I don't like having to
> compile from source unless I have to, and all too often, using CentOS means
> having to compile.  Take postfix... I had to modify the spec file for the
> RPM to include MySQL support and rebuild.
>
> Ubuntu does what I want, when I want, and has reasonably current packages.
> And it's still debian linux more or less, so I can edit config files to
> customize it to do what/when I want the way I want.
>
> Rant over.  :P
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Keith Stokes  wrote:
>
>> I think the concept is that Ubuntu is dumbed-down and minimalistic to
>> the degree that a normal computer user might be able to actually
>> install and use it.
>>
>> It's got amazing hardware drivers too.  I've had it work on brand-new
>> hardware when no other "normal" distros would work.
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:
>>
>> > meh.
>> > before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
>> > cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
>> > but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
>> > ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
>> > is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
>> > every time I reload windows I have to change
>> > the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need
>> > money too.
>> >
>> > ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
>> > the ubuntu bandwagon?
>> > it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>> >  wrote:
>> >> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as
>> >> Jobs heads Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I
>> >> am happy to see that Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for
>> >> the Mobile Phone/App market Also, Microsoft and google are having a
>> >> turf war for web search.
>> >>
>> >> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer
>> >> electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
>> >>
>> >> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change
>> >> the default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
>> >>
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>> >> kart...@poobal.net
>> >> kart...@la.gov
>> >> (225) 341-5855
>> >> skype: poobal
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles.
>> >>> Look here:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
>> >>>
>> >>> I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
>> >>>
>> >>> If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and
>> >>> let them slug it out.
>> >>>
>> >>> ---
>> >>> Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/
>> >>> Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On
>> >>> Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies
>> >>>
>> >>> Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers"
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Brad Bendily]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren "Tray" Torrance
 wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree with Shannon.

don't do that, you'll get him all worked up.

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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Shannon Roddy]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Brad Bendily  wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren "Tray" Torrance
>  wrote:
> > I'm inclined to agree with Shannon.
>
> don't do that, you'll get him all worked up.



Wow... the last year or more, it seems I've been building up some
reputations I have no idea how I generated.
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Dustin Puryear]

Because you're evil in the "Hahaha I'm evil!" sort of way.

 

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Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Apple

 

 

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Brad Bendily  wrote:

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren "Tray" Torrance
 wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree with Shannon.

don't do that, you'll get him all worked up.



Wow... the last year or more, it seems I've been building up some
reputations I have no idea how I generated.   

 

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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[John B Cole]

I'm going to assume that the "dumbed down" bit is deliberately  
provocative so that the list will perk up. I just migrated the family  
PC that my six-year-old uses from XP Home to Kubuntu 9.10, and it's  
working nicely. I've spent enough time doing things the hard way that  
I don't feel my geek cred is in danger (I had an Rticle in Pyghon  
Magazine, for Pete's sake). All of the Linux you could ever want is in  
there, but my wife and kids don't know, or need to.

I guess there's always Slackware or something if *buntu's not  
challenging enough. :-)

John

Sent from my iPod

On Feb 17, 2010, at 15:53, Karthik Poobalasubramanian  wrote:

> To me, Ubuntu is not really dumbed down but it is minimalistic which  
> helps "normal" users. In any case, it's basically Debian flavored  
> distro. Even though I switched from Ubuntu to a OS X couple of years  
> ago, my parents have been running Ubuntu since 2007. They actually  
> apply the updates on their computers and I keep an eye on it  
> remotely. Before ubuntu it was very difficult to find drivers for  
> hardware esp. in India and we had to reinstall Windows every couple  
> of months 'cause my folks will somehow manage to get it infected.
>
>
> Karthik
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Jordan Scott wrote:
>
>> And for my first ever reply after years of lurching, I give you  
>> Brad Bendilly, the master of answering his own questions:
>>
>> "ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
>> the ubuntu bandwagon?
>> it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic."
>>
>> Dumbed down = what people want.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Brad Bendily 
>> To: general@brlug.net
>> Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 1:59:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Apple
>>
>> meh.
>> before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
>> cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
>> but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
>> ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
>> is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
>> every time I reload windows I have to change
>> the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need  
>> money too.
>>
>> ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
>> the ubuntu bandwagon?
>> it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
>>  wrote:
>>> Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as  
>>> Jobs heads Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I  
>>> am happy to see that Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for  
>>> the Mobile Phone/App market Also, Microsoft and google are having  
>>> a turf war for web search.
>>>
>>> Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer  
>>> electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
>>>
>>> So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to  
>>> change the default web search on their distribution from Google to  
>>> Yahoo! ?
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> kart...@poobal.net
>>> kart...@la.gov
>>> (225) 341-5855
>>> skype: poobal
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>>
 See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles.  
 Look here:

 http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html

 I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.

 If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and  
 let them slug it out.

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