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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Years ago I was a Mac hater, a rabid Mac hater around the time of System 9 was it, can't remember the name. Then I tried OS X at a demo and saw the Imac and I was astounded by how it all fit together. This was how I'd imagined computing when I was young, looking at all those annuals that showed you what the future would look like. That's where they got me, they hooked me with that initial design and, minor annoyances apart, they've had me ever since -- which is really annoying when you're trying to advocate DRM-free and Open Source  |
Why is liking Macs annoying when you're trying to advocate DRM-free and Open Source? Not all of iTunes is DRM-free not because of Apple's choosing but because of the music industry's policies. Bits of OS X is open source, as far as I understand since part of it is from the Mach Kernel etc. WebKit is also Open Source.
Macs may have the reputation of being closed off, but when you think about it, nothing about Windows OS is actually open source. It's a whole world on its own whereas that's no longer the case for Macs.