Can't remember the last time I wrote such a lengthy email,how about you just write a blog. This post is an eyesore for me now. Sorry in advance. Sent from my iPad On Nov 16, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Watchman <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
@Aki.
At the risk of sounding brash, why not contact apple directly and complain?
Rahim.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:40 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote: Here is an Ubuntu fanboy who can't get it to work on MAC running OSX Lion. "I want to run Ubuntu on my Mac, but I've googled and tried everything, but I can't find a clear solution to this problem. Is there anyone who can help me get Ubuntu installed? "
Guess what, the site admin closed the thread! http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1857149
Amanya, this thread is not about fanboys/girls. This is about the progress and access to technologies which at the end of the day affect us all, whether pricing, development or even just messing around. I'm very surpirsed that even the Open Source people disgaree with me on the issues of too propreitary systems. Just because Microsoft was proprietary, they went bersek and created their own OSes. I hope someday both Microsoft and Intel will see what positive they did for the computer age. While the OS is closed, the hardware is not restrictive at all. If Intel/Microsoft went the MAC route, today we would be seeing a tombstone in the computer age with a message :
"Here lies Open Source. While the original developers fought hard to create a system that would benefit millions, they could not find an economical hardware platform to run it on. DOA courtesy of locked hardware systems".
Fortunately they were able to exploit the the X86 PC platform and get their systems to the people who believed in this system. Today how many can claim to own ARM, AMD or even IBM/Motorola platforms in their homes, offices, schools. So I think let us advocate for the computer hardware platform to be fully locked so that prices shoot up where everything will be fine quality. Then let us question why we áre all of a sudden being left behind in the computer age, where schools cannot afford the hardware to run locked Operating Systems that are machine specific.
Reality will show the discussion of this thread to be an ethical issue that effects the entire computer age.
Some thots. :-)
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:14 PM, amanya <whynnot@gmail.com> wrote: all am seeing here are fanboys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanboy. either side is making what it thinks are rational arguments but all are tinged with emotional attachment to their objects of affection. it's an argument that can never be settled
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