Re: Linux v/s Mac OS X?

[Biju Chacko <biju@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:23:47PM +0530, Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:
> The Apple of today is headed by a matured version of Steve Jobs, the same
> guy who was *really* responsible for creating the Evil Empire impression of
> Microsoft, to market Macintosh way back in 1984-86 and also the same guy who
> founded Apple and also the same guy who created the NIH (Not Invented Here)
> syndrome at Apple which almost killed it.

He is also the twit who yanked the licenses of the Mac clone makers. Don't get
me wrong -- MacOS X is an impressive piece of work, reflecting the high
technical standards of Apple. But unless the Mac architecture is manufactured in
mass-market numbers, it will never emerge from it's niche.

As for an x86 port -- Apple shows no signs of doing that. Only the open source
part of MacOS X -- Darwin -- has been ported to Intel. Apple shows no signs of
porting the rest -- Carbon, Cocoa, Aqua, etc to x86.

This is typical Apple -- build a better mousetrap and then get their fingers
caught in it!

Biju


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