On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 20:04, Craig White wrote:
> Basically a Macintosh is really cool hardware
Intel core 2 duos w/nvidia video seems kind of mainstream...
or did you mean the cases?
with a stagnant,
Is that another word for stable?
> proprietary OS with too little generalized software that is applicable
> for niche usage,
Niche as in professional work?
> with a majority of users with a big chip on their
> shoulders.
As compared to GPL fanatics?
> Macintosh users typically have a rather interesting
> perspective that theirs is the anti-Microsoft choice without considering
> that there are too few contributors to porting OpenOffice.org because
> they are happy launching an underpowered Microsoft Office 2004.
Perhaps they noticed the OpenOffice users complaining about how
the conversions didn't always work.
In any case, healthy competition is a good thing, and if nothing
else should help keep people honest if they try to claim that
open source always produces the best results.
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Les Mikesell
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