Comments: In-reply-to Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> message dated "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:51:10 -0800."
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> You seem to forget what is the biggie for me at least: Running X11
> applications on remote machines. X11 is is a networking window
> system, and as far as I can tell it has no real competition in that
> niche. So it's not going away anytime soon. If I could no longer
> have X11 on the Mac, I'd ditch all my Macs without a moment's
> hesitation (but plenty of regret) and go back to plain ol' FreeBSD
> (which is still what I have on my desktop at work, BTW).
Yes, I agree. Sorry, this kind of thing is what I was trying to cover
under the work practices label -- allowing people to buy or use Macs
who'd otherwise have to use some other flavor of Unix box.
(The Apple folks might however argue that ARD provides you with this
vital ability, though I think we both know that's not really true for
lots of people.)
Bill
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