Well, so? Whatever was the BSD that they 'locked up' as you said, it is still free as a part of Darwin. Nothing that was free is locked up, except for the proprietary stuff that you actually pay money for when you buy OS X.
In fact, some of that goes back to OSS too. KHTML would still suck so much in the upcoming KDE release if Safari team haven't given back the code modifications.
I tend to agree that saying that one OS is somehow universally makes people working in it more productive is quite a big nonsense. Even tho I personally like OS X, I know people that navigate through windows and do things in it faster than most people operate a mac or bash console. Noone stops you from being a total maniac operating Windows Explorer, and you'll have grounds to say that Windows boosts your productivity. But its never universal; I find it hard to believe that people still argue about this.
Despite the fact that current system does need a drastic change, saying "throw the old system out into trash violently" is way too harsh.
When you're dealing with something of this scale, you physically cannot just throw it away; there's too much bureaucracy and paperwork to be dealt with (unless you want to throw away the major part of current political system, but then again, you can't be serious)
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Well, so? Whatever was the BSD that they 'locked up' as you said, it is still free as a part of Darwin. Nothing that was free is locked up, except for the proprietary stuff that you actually pay money for when you buy OS X.
In fact, some of that goes back to OSS too. KHTML would still suck so much in the upcoming KDE release if Safari team haven't given back the code modifications.
I tend to agree that saying that one OS is somehow universally makes people working in it more productive is quite a big nonsense. Even tho I personally like OS X, I know people that navigate through windows and do things in it faster than most people operate a mac or bash console. Noone stops you from being a total maniac operating Windows Explorer, and you'll have grounds to say that Windows boosts your productivity. But its never universal; I find it hard to believe that people still argue about this.
Hey, I'm also considering one! Not like its going to happen tho :D
Despite the fact that current system does need a drastic change, saying "throw the old system out into trash violently" is way too harsh.
When you're dealing with something of this scale, you physically cannot just throw it away; there's too much bureaucracy and paperwork to be dealt with (unless you want to throw away the major part of current political system, but then again, you can't be serious)