11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
10:03 p.m.
Kirn Gill wrote:
So do you have anything meaningful or insightful to say on this list, or
are you merely trying to impress us with the way you generically hate
everything?
Josh
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Josh Dersch wrote:
Yeah, and you know what the worst thing is? Everyone is forced to run
only viable consumer OSes. It's illegal to download and run Linux, or
BSD, or even a hobbyist license of OpenVMS. (And woe to thee who even
whispers "Amiga Workbench".) Nope, ever since the dark days in '98 when
Microsoft and Apple joined forces to lobby congress for the "Give
Teenage Computer Nerds Something to Whine About on the Internet" bill if
you're caught running an "invalid" OS it's off to the crowbar motel for
you! They've got Stallman, and I hear Torvalds is on the lam!
And there are no free toolchains for building your own OS, should you
want to improve on the status quo!
Yeah, what a horrible world we live in --
affordable, powerful
hardware capable of running a wide variety of free, powerful, and
useful operating systems and software and emulating every vintage
system under the sun. A world -wide-network making the collecting
and maintainance of our hobby projects possible. Digital watches.
"free, powerful and useful" does not describe any viable consumer
OS
at the moment.
At point, the only consumer OSes really worth
considering (more than
7.5% market share) are Windows and Mac OS X.
If you are trying to apply "free, powerful and useful" to Windows, you
need your head examined.
Not free, no. Powerful and useful, yes. I offer you some friendly
advice: Openly insulting people is probably not a great way to introduce
yourself to a mailing list.
Mac OS X... is an abomination. A design (look and
feel) that sucks
using a interface toolkit (Cocoa) that sucks written in a language
(Objective-C) that sucks.
I asked you before, I'll ask you again -- what _specific_ complaints do
you have about Objective-C or Cocoa? What experience do you have with
either, and what is your basis for comparison?
Yeah, we live
in the worst of all possible worlds.
And sadly, it seems no matter what you do, it can' t get any better,
because all OSes suck, some just suck less than others.
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