[PLUG] Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Damon Bull wrote:
> Yes, I think it does matter:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1824810,00.asp

I'm surprised not to find more discussion along these lines here.

I personally don't care about "Linux desktop vendors" (whoever THEY are), 
but I certainly think that this is more about getting OSX running on 
everybody's home PC.  Everybody knows Apple has a better interface. 
Everybody knows that Microsoft sucks ass.  And since iTunes is such a big 
hit, folks are looking more and more toward Apple.  (I have thought 
recently that iTunes was intentionally not rolling out an integrated video 
player so that Microsoft wouldn't immediately target them as a threat. 
Already, folks prefer it to Windows Media Player for their music.  It'll 
be doing movies soon and then it'll be on everyone's desktop... the OS is 
next.)

But they have hardware... and they have a kind of investment.  There's a 
sort of religion out there where folks say, "I'm a PC guy... Macs are cool 
and all, but too sleek and hermetic."

I think they're pretending this is about changing chipsets and it's really 
about taking down Microsoft.

I don't really like the idea of one piece of proprietary software 
replacing another, but at least it's unix and has a chance of being 
useful!

Cheap hardware and OSX is probably exactly what Microsoft fears most.

J.
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