Fastlane macos1/9/2024 ![]() (Actually that’s what I need to learn for my job.) I want to learn to do cool things in P-Shop and FCP and Dreamweaver and Acrobat. I don’t want to learn to config a video card. Or that you don’t NEED or have to want to learn reams of “cthulu” to make the OS really useful on your desktop. Oh, I think it’s possible to learn from OS X. However, you can distribute Darwin all you like. 10+ years and “Team Linux” *still* can’t come up with a desktop that just effin works or software that has a straightforward universal non CLI install. I’d like to ask you all one question that no one seems to have answered of mine yet, is there an advantage to the PPC platform that makes it desirable for Linux development that x86 cannot fulfill? If so, what is this advantage?Īnd some nice APIs, but all the ‘good bits’ of OS X are closed and proprietary.>Īs is Apple’s right. I am more than willing to continue this dicussion else where though if anyone else is willing to present the other side of the coin to me. I’d like to stop this thread though because it doesn’t belong here. That being said, I don’t see how this is any different in the software world. What good is my product if anyone can copy it? How does this help me ensure my survival in this world if someone else is out there taking advantage of my work? If someone out there is giving away my formulas and chemical reactions for free, that puts me out of a job! What good am I to a company when they have someone else doing my job for free? The products I design have a code consisting of chemical reactions, additives, and various components. ![]() My job during the summer is that of a chemist. This is the crux of my difficulty in understanding the FOSS world. What I have yet to see is a feasible way of combining the two. I see the value in learning from other people’s code from the eyes of a student. I see software through the eyes of someone who wants to make a living from it. That being said, thank you anonymous! (And to doggedblues, I didn’t mean to be hostile, I’m sorry you read my post that way.) I’d like to point out to the rest of you posters that this was the only person who caught the drift of my original post and responded in a fashion that allows for real discussion before posting my response to him. I’m certainly not the oldest person in the computer industry, but I’ve seen enough to come to the conclusion that Open Source is, as far as I am concerned, the only sane way to move forward.Īnd if it leaves a smoking crater where a once-mighty commercial software industry stood, then so be it. Getting bought out by Apple was hardly a forgone conclusion – the ‘better’ OS could very well have never been, and all that work flushed straight down the corporate crapper. Or NeXT – NeXT stagnated for 10 years before becoming MacOS X. Now where is it? It certainly didnt die for lack of user support. What a waste of time and effort.ĪmigaOS – the amiga was revolutionary in it’s time. Look at the BeOS – So much potential, and good ideas – only just now resurfacing in Longhorn/Tiger. OS X can suffer exactly the same fate – Apple falls on hard times and all that work gets dumped, and lost. Maybe you don’t remember that, or never even knew that – A/UX is long dead, and because of commercial licensing, will never be seen again. ![]() I was simply trying to answer your question as to why someone might want Linux on PPC.Īs an example of why I don’t embrace OS X as ‘The better OS’ – I’ve seen it before – I look at A/UX and I see OS X 12 years ago – 12 years ago Apple had a UNIX OS with seamless MacOS 9 integration – capable of running UNIX and MacOS binaries. Your priorities w/regard to software are obviously quite different from mine, and I respect that. You can’t modify it, you can’t redistribute it, and you can’t learn from it. ![]() OS X might have a rather beautiful GUI layer and some nice APIs, but all the ‘good bits’ of OS X are closed and proprietary. Plus, the idea that OS X is ‘the better OS’ is just not right. Sure, you could say that only appeals to ‘geeks’ – and that ‘geeks’ are an irrelevant minority, but then why would you worry about what we might collectively do to the job market? Whats difficult to understand about that? Free/OSS software is simply about building a software platform free from commercial and other constraints – giving everyone who obtains it the freedom to use it, modify it, redistribute it, and learn from it. ![]()
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