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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 04/02/14 17:42, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> stephen barncard wrote: >> >> Not amusing to the look and feel people at Apple. >>> >>> the Icons are copied or very close. Not to mention about 20 other things. >>> Can 'they' get away with this? >>> >> >> There have been Mac-like desktop environments for Linux for many years >> (never understood the attraction myself; I love OS X but only on a Mac, >> when I'm using Linux I want to use Linux). >> >> MacBuntu is one of the more popular ones, noteworthy for being both a >> blatant rip-off of Apple's UI and also thumbing their nose the request from >> Canonical to reserve names ending in "buntu" for officially-support forks: >> <http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Macbuntu?content=129021> >> >> But historically the number of people using such DEs has been negligibly >> small. >> >> While this would increase the number of people using a Mac-like UI on >> Linux, it's North Korea: if we're to believe the Western propaganda about >> their lifestyle, relatively few there have a computer at all, so at most it >> might double the number of such users. >> >> Moreover, it's a rogue state beyond the influence of any international >> partners or laws. Not even China's Xi Jinping can talk sense to Kim >> Jong-un; I doubt Tim Cook could. >> >> Looks like Apple have to rely on Dennis Rodman to settle this. :) >> > > I suspect this problem, and a whole lot more important ones, will be > settled by South Korea in due course. > > Richmond. > > > >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World >> LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com >> Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com >> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode