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The Unix-Haters Handbook Online
kinema writes "It looks like The UNIX-Hater's Handbook has been made availible
online for free. You'll never guess who's server it is on." Worth noting that the book was written some time ago, and that much of what is in there is ancient history. But still worth a look.
Is it like a race to point out that it's a dupe? At least put a joke in your post to make it worth reading!
Yep. Apple, after pissing off or firing all their talent in the 1980s blew not one (Taligent), not two (Gershwin), but three (Copland) separate tries at creating a new operating system so, in total desparation and nearly bankrupt, they decided to skip innovation put lipstick on a pig, pretend they'd actually created something and hope that the Apple and Unix faithful would keep quiet and go along with it.
I'm suspicious that the real reason Apple took the course they did was to provide cover for bailing out Job's Next company. A company that also flushed a lot of money down the toilet and never produced anything the market found desirable. By having Apple buy it, Job's created the illusion that there was something of value there.
The real irony is that Jobs zealots (as opposed to old fashioned Apple product zealots) would swallow the idea that Apple's future depended on adopting an OS based on a quarter-century-old command-line technology (wrapped in a GUI not withstanding).