Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people! <OT>

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 15:42 -0400, Tom H wrote: 
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Your (OT) rant is firstly completely useless and secondly grossly in error.
> > Or didn't you know that the MacOS is Linux (albeit BSD) with a
> > not-so-intelligent overlay.
> 
> If you're going to correct someone, *please* get your facts right!
> 
> OS X's based on FreeBSD, which most certainly isn't Linux.

It is a very close cousin. So close, that you wouldn't marry her. :) 

> OS X's "overlay" is being imitated by both Canonical and GNOME so it
> can't be *that* unintelligent...

Who knows? Maybe Jobs can be out-Jobs-ed, as in doing it better than
they do? The original target was to be better than Win95. We have, for
the most part, gotten there. (IMHO) Next, OS X. It's not a bad goal to
set. I hope it succeeds, myself. The uphill battle will be not having
the home-field advantage of all the proprietary drivers that both
Windows and Mac enjoys, for the various gadgets that Ubuntu will be
expected to support. That is the real uphill battle. Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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