[Tfug] Smoke detectors

[Charles R. Kiss]

I'm a little bored. This isn't a perfect response to your post, but here:


I'm by no means an expert, or even a techie, but your critique seems unnecessarily and overly harsh. 


> putting pressure on Apple to open OS X up to non-Apple 
> hardware
I don't have hardware issues, after HP: net, scanner, printer, router, all work fine (and have for years). I thinks as long as one picks the right hardware... etc. 

Anyway, so I bought this MacBook, because some software existed only for MAC/PC (as ususal), and I was feeling pretty riche.  I thought I would find it more appealing than another Windows Xperience; and what happens: after a year, the MacBook breaks down, after paying $80 to have it diagnosed, I end up spending another 50% of the total value of the machine to get it repaired.  Isn't that like buying a $100,000 BMW and then having to shell out another $50K to get it fixed? I was pretty disappointed.

Totally unfair:the hypocrisy of making a TV commercial attacking Windows for baiting customers into situations that will add extra costs and commitments.

So, they're both the same as far as I'm concerned.  The fact that Mac had enough brains to steal Unix parts speaks highly enough of Unix, though. Doesn't it?  It's too bad they have to obfuscate everything with proprietary jigzaw pieces, and the herd just falls in line because they both have a aggressive marketing plans brainwashing consumers.  Maybe Linux would be better off if they started their own marketing department. But that would just ruin everything.  I like the privacy of a somewhat esoteric operating system, and hey it's OPEN!

> It should be pretty obvious by now that Linux on the desktop is dead. 
> It's had 10+ years now to take root, grow, stabilize, and be truly 
> competitive...and it simply hasn't.
Apple has been around for 20+ years. 10 years ago, Mac didn't look so hot either. What did?

> Linux's "world domination" marketshare 
(???)

But who wants world domination, anyway? World Domination is'nt the point; I think the point is an operating system. 
> *buying*
Besides, pretty soon, Linux is all most anyone will be able to afford. Or should "pay" for, since most everything else isn't worth the hundreds and hundreds of dollars they'll have to spend, and chains of Service Packs, or Upgrades, to keep it working.  So, I hope and pray to the forces of creation that Linux never goes away... it's been such a wonderful experience, thus far.