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Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X
iskander writes "After a disappointing experience with sound, Jamie Zawinski has finally given up on desktop Linux and switched to Mac OS X. The future of apps like xscreensaver and Gronk is now ``highly ambiguous''. He has already ditched a free/open platform before, but he seems a lot angrier this time. Indeed, twisted by the Dark Side of the Source, young Zawinski has become."
I also gave up and went for a Mac for exactly the same reason. It's unacceptable that in 2005 a Linux distribution (FC3, in my case) doesn't recognize a three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
"OMG!! SOMETHING I GOT FOR FREE DOESNT DO EVERYTHING 100% PERFECTLY!!! I MUST BITCH ABOUT IT!!!""
Why don't you write the code to do this yourself, it's all GPL.
And after all those years of hardcore, Good Feeling (tm) UNIX development work, he's using Real Player on his club's website...
;P
http://www.dnalounge.com/cam/
Sounds like his switch to OSX was predated by other forms of evil
Most definitely. I live on my nice hill, looking down upon the dirty, ugly metro sprawl, filled with wannabe "cool people" who are actually pathetic soulless followers chasing the latest fashion fad (e.g., goth look, peircing, tats, coffee shops, underground music, etc), who wouldn't know culture if it came up and ripped out their tongue barbell.
I bet you're under 30, aren't you?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
He runs a nightclub and feeds people's alcohol addiction. He thinks that more honest. Surrounding yourself with a room full of drunks every nights looking to get laid. Nice.
evil is as evil does
I can definately agree with you there, too. However, with so many tech companies jumping onto this bullshit TCPA bandwagon, and selling themselves out to the corrupt entertainment industry, I believe that the battle may be already lost. I surely hope not, but does anyone here really see a way to actually win at this point? (and I don't mean some stupid and pointless boycott that virtually nobody will participate in) Meanwhile, since the gov't is buying the line that p2p sponsors terrorism and is rife with child pornography, there's no way that anyone can even have an intelligent debate about it, let alone see through all the misinformation. Meanwhile, I'm really sick and tired of hearing people passing their own moral edicts onto other people and swinging their little dicks around like their opinions ought to be facts and that everybody else is wrong, a terrorist, or simply evil!! Lastly, Joe Sixpack would rather have his music than his freedom. Heaven forbid the sheep ever stand up for their rights. Even Apple's sold out by going to Intel (with their built in DRM, which they deny of course), and with applause from some of their userbase, too. (which has totally thrown me for a loop) This may or may not prove to be their undoing, but will likely kill them if they try to stand toe to toe with M$ again.
Anyway, before I go too far offtopic, I suppose Zawinski will either be back to Linux on his PPC Mac hardware after a few years just to have some sort of OS support, or move on to an x86 Mac that's really going to be nothing more than an overhyped, overpriced PC clone. Oh, I will sadly miss the days when I used to poke fun at Mac users for being different. Now they'll be different alright, just like everybody else. Oh well, and the world will still continue to turn anyway.
Why don't you buy a freaking television then, instead of dumping ever increasing demands on your computer while expect its overall complexity to remain low. A car has a fairly simple user interface. But make it a taxi and it has a few more knobs and switches to worry about. Make it a towtruck, backhow, hovercraft, and airplane, and it suddenly starts looking like your overly complex computer.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!