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Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-worry-jamie-we-won't-post-it dept.

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."

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  1. Bullshit by bobbis.u · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe he just got tired of fucking around with Linux. He got bored of having to trawl through "help" documents, fiddlying with config files and generally wasting time to achieve a second best result. He probably decided his time was worth the cost of buying a professional operating system that works. OK, so maybe he can't now reconfigure the colour of the drop shadow on the mouse pointer, but he clearly doesn't care about that.

    Also, he doesn't really care what the Linux crowd thinks, which is why he posted the remark about Slashdot.

  2. Re:Who the hell is Jamie Zawinski by prodangle · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.jwz.org/hacks/

    "Back before you had heard of Netscape, I was responsible for the Unix versions of Netscape Navigator through release 1.1."

    "Before Netscape, I was primarily to blame for Lucid Emacs"

    "...I was one of the folks who created and ran the Mozilla Organization during the first year of its life"

    "But now I've taken my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer."