<rant>
FUD, FUD, FUD!
[snip]
I know that you have some hatred towards Macs. This is of course
solely
your decision and I don't want to keep you from acting out this bias.
But don't tell things you can not prove.
</rant>
FUD FUD FUD yourself. I have no hatred whatever towards Macs, or even
Apple. I dislike what Apple have done to combine Mac OS and
NeXTstep/OPENSTEP. Each one, taken individually, is a great piece of
software. The combination is a great piece of elephant offal.
I also say, without qualification, that Apple are not relevant to the
future of free software. As such, they are no better and no worse than
the
rest of the proprietary software companies, and are doomed along with
the
rest of them by the growth of free software running on commodity
hardware.
Doesn't mean I hate them, it merely means that I relegate them to the
ashbin of history along with the SCOs, Microsofts, and Oracles of the
world. Eventually, all will fall, and it's best to let them die rather
than prop them up. Ignoring and refusing to support them will merely
accelerate the process of either converting them to free software, or
putting them out of our misery.
Even including Darwin, they don't do free software. At best, they take
advantage of the good will of others by taking free bug fixes and
development without accepting any risk. It's a good gig, if you can get
it.