Apple has every right and an obligation to sue to protect it's intellectual property. If any of you armchair Marxists had a clue you would know this!
Furthermore...
Is a tool inherently less powerful because anyone can use it? I think not. In fact, if anything it's often just the opposite. Do all you Linux purist, Mac-bashers forgo using the remotes for your TV's?
No?
Well, using your silly complexity/inscrutability = superior power, elitist "logic" perhaps you should be rubbing two sticks together for your morning toast too!!
If you don't need to manually configure everything about your computer system, why the hell should you? Inconceivable as it may be for many of you, some people don't see the need for this and will gladly even pay a little more to avoid the hassle of dealing with the complexity within which you may thrive.
Hack away and build your *nix boxes with the sweat and toil that gives you such personal satisfation, just don't presume that anyone who doesn't see the world from your miopic point of view is idiotic. This sort of arrogance is no better than that of the Windows-centric conformity which you are supposedly trying to subvert!
Okay, so I'm going to market my new Linux distribution and call it Rouge Beret and the symbol will be, of course a red beret. Will Red Hat rightfully sue me and if so will all of you knuckleheaded Apple haters cry foul or for my head?
Being a very WYSYG, GUI guy yet strangely, quite a happy user of the alledgedly "dead" platform, I've never understood the vitirol directed towards Apple by many who like to think of themselves as "intelligent". Generally speaking, if we learn anything at all from history, isn't it that conformity and dogmatic indoctrination only promotes ignorance, fear, hatred and mediocraty if not outright suffering? Conversely, isn't it diversity and tolerance which ultimately is the basis for the success of egalitarian notions like Open Source?
In other words, connect the dots ye nerdy curmudgeons!
IBM releasing PPC motherboard specs, Darwin and QuickTime, multiple core G4 and Altivec, Firewire, the Mach kernal with Free BSD, OpenStep(Cocoa/YellowBox) API's for easy and powerful cross platfrom development and the icing on the cake, Quartz the new imaging engine with system wide alpha channel compositing, native HTML, vector imaging and PDF built in!
If this is not "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" then what is?
Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for "hacking" on any level, though only a theoretical interest for myself, but let's face it, the low level coding and higher level GUI approaches are symbiotic and need to be to ultimately succeed. And besides, great engineering is all about leveraging strengths and making practical tradeoffs isn't it?
There is no end all be all. The point of the journey is not to arrive...
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check it out:
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http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/08/22/rfitues.htm
interesting no?
Apple has every right and an obligation to sue to protect it's intellectual property. If any of you armchair Marxists had a clue you would know this!
Furthermore...
Is a tool inherently less powerful because anyone can use it? I think not. In fact, if anything it's often just the opposite. Do all you Linux purist, Mac-bashers forgo using the remotes for your TV's?
No?
Well, using your silly complexity/inscrutability = superior power, elitist "logic" perhaps you should be rubbing two sticks together for your morning toast too!!
If you don't need to manually configure everything about your computer system, why the hell should you? Inconceivable as it may be for many of you, some people don't see the need for this and will gladly even pay a little more to avoid the hassle of dealing with the complexity within which you may thrive.
Hack away and build your *nix boxes with the sweat and toil that gives you such personal satisfation, just don't presume that anyone who doesn't see the world from your miopic point of view is idiotic. This sort of arrogance is no better than that of the Windows-centric conformity which you are supposedly trying to subvert!
get a grip! or a grep if you prefer;-)
I, me, mine!
So you think that your experience is representative of all mac users and all Apple products and therefore justifies your "hatred" ?
Am I too assume then that all PC/*nix users are small minded sychophants like yourself?
Swano, maybe you should take a rest from huffing the model glue every now and then ;-)
Okay, so I'm going to market my new Linux distribution and call it Rouge Beret and the symbol will be, of course a red beret. Will Red Hat rightfully sue me and if so will all of you knuckleheaded Apple haters cry foul or for my head?
Right On Mocha Man!
Why indeed?
Being a very WYSYG, GUI guy yet strangely, quite a happy user of the alledgedly "dead" platform, I've never understood the vitirol directed towards Apple by many who like to think of themselves as "intelligent". Generally speaking, if we learn anything at all from history, isn't it that conformity and dogmatic indoctrination only promotes ignorance, fear, hatred and mediocraty if not outright suffering? Conversely, isn't it diversity and tolerance which ultimately is the basis for the success of egalitarian notions like Open Source?
In other words, connect the dots ye nerdy curmudgeons!
IBM releasing PPC motherboard specs, Darwin and QuickTime, multiple core G4 and Altivec, Firewire, the Mach kernal with Free BSD, OpenStep(Cocoa/YellowBox) API's for easy and powerful cross platfrom development and the icing on the cake, Quartz the new imaging engine with system wide alpha channel compositing, native HTML, vector imaging and PDF built in!
If this is not "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" then what is?
Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for "hacking" on any level, though only a theoretical interest for myself, but let's face it, the low level coding and higher level GUI approaches are symbiotic and need to be to ultimately succeed. And besides, great engineering is all about leveraging strengths and making practical tradeoffs isn't it?
There is no end all be all.
The point of the journey is not to arrive...
cheers!
mArtin