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"xbill" for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the it-passes-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like some guys have made a GPL'd Mac OS X game called xGates. It's very similar to xbill but you get to use a chainsaw and it's awfully violent. Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified. =)" Hey, xbill was a Unix app first, but we Mac users have hated Microsoft and Gates since before Linux or xbill even existed! :-)

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  1. Re:Wow by b_pretender · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Although I'm no fan of Bill Gates, I find this game disturbing. Out of respect for a fellow human being, I don't need some game that shows a detailed image of someone running a chainsaw through somebodies stomach or bill gates' head being held high in the air.

    No Thanks. I prefer my gore to be anonymous as in Quake 3 violence.

    BTW, since Bill Gates does give so much of his (personal) money to education and third world countries, maybe we should respect him a little more by *not* playing this game.

  2. Re:Wow by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    BTW, since Bill Gates does give so much of his (personal) money to education and third world countries, maybe we should respect him a little more by *not* playing this game.

    Maybe if Bill Gates didn't have a monopoly over the OS market Apple would have more money to give to third world countries. Plus they could afford to give everyone a raise.

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  3. Re:UNIXified by derch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Watch this get modded down because it's mac related.

    I have mod points to give. I was going to give one, but you had to put that line in.

    This is the Apple section. Mac related comments are, well... expected and common place in the Apple section. There are moderators who specifically hit this section because it's not overly moderated and reading at -1 is much easier on the eyes (and on browser load times).

    Save your cynicism for a Mac comment in a 'BSD is dead' or 'Windoze blows' article.

  4. Re:Wow by eyeball · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if Bill Gates didn't have a monopoly over the OS market Apple would have more money to give to third world countries. Plus they could afford to give everyone a raise [spymac.com].

    Maybe if Steve Jobs & co. didn't have a monopoly over the hardware that runs OS X, Microsoft wouldn't have such a large market share.

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  5. Re:UNIXified by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

    Interesting analogy. It's more like transitioning from a 60's automatic to a tiptronic.

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  6. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    BTW, since Bill Gates does give so much of his (personal) money to education and third world countries, maybe we should respect him a little more by *not* playing this game.

    That's really naive - it's just marketing. Their foundation is just an other Microsoft way of forcing others into Windows. It's pretty clever for it's tax deductable so it's much cheeper then ordinary marketing. That is you taxparyer contribute and help the Gates foundation to brainwash thous poor kids.

    No it's not worth respect.

  7. Can we get an "Amen"? by matzim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well said.

    MS bites. I think we pretty much agree on that. But to take MS-bashing to the point where we revel in images of the chairman of the company being graphically dismembered, we've crossed a line somewhere.

  8. re-ported to mac you mean by veggiespam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i remember playing "xbill" long before the X windows version was written. it was on a mac se, long ago. if you read the xbill history in the tarball (or help screens), you'll notice they pay homage to the original mac game. so, the game concept returns back to its source.

  9. Re:UNIXified by inkswamp · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

    Not exactly. I've watched non-geeks where I work move from OS 9 to OS X without much problem and without noticing too much difference. Apple did a good job of hiding a lot of the geek stuff so a better analogy would be that going from OS 9 to OS X must be like moving from an automatic to a stick shift that lets you drive like it's an automatic anyway.

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  10. You MS hired mole-trolls never give up, do you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...gives so much of his [clip]...to third world countries...

    Strictly to buy favor for his corporation...don't think for one shrink-wrapped minute his heart bleeds for anything but his bottom line.

    gates deserves as much respect as an unlined trashcan.