From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Linux on Macintrashes? (Was: Re: Linux on Amiga?) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 19:52:31 GMT
In article <1qhhd7INN7m0@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
| nmspillers@ualr.edu writes:
| If they don't know about FSF or GNU it is because they *have* been
| 'assimilated' by the Macintrash empire. If they were dumb enough to
| buy an over-priced-one-mouse-button-tiny-black-and-white-screen-
| bloated-awful-looking-os-without-a-cli-and-built-by-fascists computer
| in the first place, there's really no reason for them to want or need
| UNIX. After all, purchasing a Macintrash is acceptance of its point
| and drool interface, AND a token of acceptance for Apple's business
| practices-- both of which go against the free software/UNIX tradition.
When you move from the .edu to the .com domain you may find that
people buy hardware to run their software, and don't care who makes it
as long as it solves the problem at hand. I have software which only
runs on Mac or DOS, and I need it to make money. Or I need it to do what
I wanted to do with a computer in the first place.
For most people computers are tools, not political statements. To
insist on using UNIX for everything, or on avoiding commercial software
is a little like using a sports car to haul manure instead of a truck.
You may like the user interface, but the job takes longer, and overall
as a solution it stinks.