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Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony

Posted by Roblimo on from the beware-of-the-invisible-giant dept.

Not only is Piers Anthony one of the world's most popular fantasy authors (his books have been science fiction and fantasy staples for decades) but he has been using Linux and StarOffice 5.2 for the past year. This is your opportunity to ask Piers about either the technical aspects of using Linux and StarOffice to produce fiction or about his upcoming work (new Xanth novels coming soon!) or almost anything else. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Piers tomorrow, and will run his answers (verbatim, as always) as soon as he gets them back to us.

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  1. Because in spirit, Apple is worse than MS by Srin+Tuar · · Score: 1, Troll

    I personally have never understood why so many linux users were also Apple afficionados. Ive always looked at systems from a programmers point of view, and for the longest time, microsoft has been way more programmer friendly than Apple.

    I shudder what the state of the industry would be if Apple had taken over the desktop: They are even more tightfisted with patents, copyrights, look and feel, etc than even Microsoft.

    Once linux reached critical mass, Its become way more programmer friendly than the alternatives, to the point were I myself have ditched other platforms completely.

    Admittedly, with a BSDish foundation, thing are supposedly better for the latest Apple operating system, but with most of the code that makes osX what it is being closed, I dont see them as any better than Microsoft.

    Perhaps alot of the "linux advocates" are merely Microsoft bashers, and have no particular desire for source code or self determination.