would you reject a firefox patch just because it was signed with a @microsoft.com email address? seems to me that runs counter to the ideals of foss. Let upstream decide if what they're getting is good software and if it is, it should go in no matter where it comes from.
"in fact, when I'm typing in a web form, I frequently find myself trying to use Vi shortcuts"
There's a cure for that ailment. There's a firefox addon called itsalltext that lets you assign a shortcut to text areas and edit them with the editor of your choosing. This response, of course, was written in vim;)
If you feel like attacking microsoft then you should take a look at your motives and realize that Apple are clearly the "evil" ones in this situation. Apple represents the evil monopolistic corporation that Microsoft can only dream of becoming. Everything Apple makes is completely closed and proprietary, hey use their patent portfolio aggressively to stifle competition, and they take from the open source community without giving back.
Not to say that Google are saints, but of course Apple will defend the current patent system. It serves to squash small independent inventors who could never afford to litigate, and bolster companies with teams of lawyers and large portfolios of "inventions" which are patently obvious (no pun intended).
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would you reject a firefox patch just because it was signed with a @microsoft.com email address? seems to me that runs counter to the ideals of foss. Let upstream decide if what they're getting is good software and if it is, it should go in no matter where it comes from.
"in fact, when I'm typing in a web form, I frequently find myself trying to use Vi shortcuts"
There's a cure for that ailment. There's a firefox addon called itsalltext that lets you assign a shortcut to text areas and edit them with the editor of your choosing. This response, of course, was written in vim ;)
If you feel like attacking microsoft then you should take a look at your motives and realize that Apple are clearly the "evil" ones in this situation. Apple represents the evil monopolistic corporation that Microsoft can only dream of becoming. Everything Apple makes is completely closed and proprietary, hey use their patent portfolio aggressively to stifle competition, and they take from the open source community without giving back.
Not to say that Google are saints, but of course Apple will defend the current patent system. It serves to squash small independent inventors who could never afford to litigate, and bolster companies with teams of lawyers and large portfolios of "inventions" which are patently obvious (no pun intended).
Isn't that his point though? The original poster said unlike XP, everything on a Mac just works "simple, easy, intuitive".
The solutions you give to the problems he faced would have been just as impossible for the Granddad mentioned on a Mac as they were on his PC.