Re: [Fsfe-uk] An ignorant question?

[ian]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:38, Alex Hudson wrote:
 
> (people still manage to use Macs, don't they?)

That's an interesting point. "Going Linux" seems to be a lot more
emotive than being an established Mac user. The only real rationale for
that is fear of change. The Mac is familiar (ok reputation for
user-friendly etc) but one set of disadvantages is pretty much the same
ie lack of certain specialist apps. Harder to find techs to support
networks etc and the Mac has had a lot longer in to overcome these.
Another - proprietary hardware and software expense and tie in is not a
disadvantage with GNU/Linux. Maybe we should be questioning why the Mac
is catered for eg for cable ISP connection etc porting apps etc and not
other systems given that rumour has it that there are now close to as
many people using desktop GNU/Linux as Mac.

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ian <address@hidden>