AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- Subject: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- From: Richard Weiss <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:41:51 -0700
Hi Richard,
I don't think you can really say that there is a movement towards
other OSes. Yes, there were a couple of high profile defections but
when you look at the facts it's not as if there is any evidence that
people are moving away from the Mac with any momentum - in fact the
opposite remains true. Apple's market share is growing.
As for the DRM fiasco? Care to elaborate?
Well I did say it was a rant
(rant |rant| verb [ intrans. ] speak or shout at length in a wild,
impassioned way : he was still ranting on about the unfairness of it all.)
As far as it goes, you must admit that even the most narrow use user,
e.g. my wife uses only email and Firefox, learns something about their
comp over a period of time. If you have any motivation at all you learn
a bunch. The open source community has been out there for Unix and
Linux since as long as I remember (~1989 I heard of Unix) when I got
my first Mac+. Neil stephenson puts it in perspective (although this
was written in the computer middle ages 1999);
Yet now the company that Gates and Allen founded is selling operating
systems like Gillette sells razor blades. New releases of operating
systems are launched as if they were Hollywood blockbusters, with
celebrity endorsements, talk show appearances, and world tours. The
market for them is vast enough that people worry about whether it has
been monopolized by one company. Even the least technically minded
people in our society now have at least a hazy idea of what operating
systems do; what is more, they have strong opinions about their
relative merits. It is commonly understood, even by technically
unsophisticated computer users, that if you have a piece of software
that works on your Macintosh, and you move it over onto a Windows
machine, it will not run. That this would, in fact, be a laughable and
idiotic mistake, like nailing horseshoes to the tires of a Buick.
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780380815937/In_the_Beginningwas_the_Command_Line/excerpt.aspx
Since iTunes came out and Apple got into the music biz I've been put
off. (Funny how you could love a product but dislike a company.) I never
use the iTunes store. I'll find the CD and do with it what I want, in
the format I want, within legal guide lines. The addition of adding
"Trusted Computing" to the kernel is disturbing to say the least.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html
Why not take it a step further? When Ubuntu gets the bugs out and the
GUI tuned I'd try it, and I'm a photographer not a computer guy. Maybe a
slightly above average mac user. Best.
Rich Weiss
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