"Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1aim6cnnfxba7$.xbad57tltpnb$.dlg@40tude.net.. .
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:46:15 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2008-05-16, Ezekiel <a@b.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/15...r-city-blocks/
>>>
>>><quote>
>>> Oh, hello there. I'm patiently waiting for the new Boylston Street Apple
>>> Store to open here in Boston. Did I need to show up four hours early?
>>> Probably not, but I just can't resist sitting in an outdoor food court
>>> while
>>> pigeons buzz within inches of my fragile body. Seems nobody told them
>>> about
>>> the food chain and how humans are atop said food chain. Anyhoo, you
>>> might be
>>> interested to know that the line for the grand opening of the Apple
>>> Store
>>> stretches a country mile! Four city blocks to be precise.
>>></quote>
>>
>> ...while you are too busy taking a swipe a Linux over this you are
>> interestingly enough ignoring the fact that this sort of thing doesn't
>> happen over Microsoft products anymore. The sort of excitement that
>> a new Microsoft product launch used to generate is now being generated
>> by Apple instead.
>
> Pretty much true as Vista is turning out to be less than exciting.
>
>> ...not such a bad thing overall.
>>
>> [deletia]
>>
>> Linux loses nothing if Apple does well.
>
> Sure it does.
> Why aren't all those people jumping ship to Apple going to Linux instead?
> Linux is free.
> Apple is not.
>
> THAT is the question which needs to be answered.
>
> When you have a free product, Linux, and a potential pool of unhappy
> customers (Vista users), why are these customers ready, willing and able
> to
> pay big money for Apple vs migrating to Linux for free?
>
> IOW what is it about Linux that keeps average Joe from using it?
If Linux isn't anything to worry about, how come Microsoft spends so much in
anti-Linux FUD? The internet abounds with stories like:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05..._provides_big/
And you can't count in sales the downloads of Linux. I give out FREE DVDs
to anyone that asks. Those will not even be on the download counters.
And HP goes the distance producing printer drivers for an OS no one uses.
Right.
You are right, Linux looses nothing if Apple wins. In fact, Apple is BSD
UNIX inside and fully 100% interoperable with Linux. Unlike Vista
crippleware.