brian notes that Paul Graham recently switched from FreeBSD to a PowerBook. Macs hit the open source community about 4 years ago, and really hit with a vengence 3 years ago, which makes Paul a little late to the game. ;-) (Some folks are already on the other side of the curve
Paul mentions two interesting aspects of his conversion.
When I walked into the Apple store in Cambridge, it was like coming home.Yep. That's center-of-the-universe syndrome. The obscure Cambridge, MA variety, rather than the more common NYC variety. (The Cambridge Apple store opened last year, if I'm not mistaken.) Hm....Lisp and Lisp machines hit big in Cambridge in the 1980s, and Paul's a big fan. The Apple Store hit Cambridge last year, and Paul is a late convert to Mac OS X. I wonder if there's a correlation here...
Another troubling assertion:
[T]here's this company called Apple. They make a new kind of computer that's as well designed as a Bang & Olufsen stereo system, and underneath is the best Unix machine you can buy.Wow. What a backhanded compliment. Among audiophiles, B&O is famous for designing very pretty, incredibly over priced equipment that offers mediocre performance at best. If Apple is selling B&O grade equipment, and sells the best Unix machine that money can buy, it's time to sell your Apple stock and start investing in abacuses. Or maybe Curta calculators. :-)
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pudge on 2005-03-30T20:11:38
Yeah, I was gonna say, I was at the opening (with some friends;-) and I have not been to Cambridge in a couple of years ... Re:cambridgeside
pudge on 2005-03-30T20:14:06
I just found some pics I've got in iPhoto, of when we were there for the Jaguar release... August 23, 2002.
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brian_d_foy on 2005-03-30T18:01:43
Tim Bray simply reports that he's thinking about it, and there is a lot of downside. He's not talking about other people. I'm not sure what you mean by "other side of the curve", since Tim says he's switch to Solaris. That's more like regressing to 1998. It's not even in the curve.Re:
Aristotle on 2005-03-31T03:05:14
Hmm?
- “Other side of the curve” is ziggy’s phrasing, in his case referring to Windows. That is better?
- I did say “veering onto,” not “on.”
- “Other” was a link to Tim’s weblog, so I don’t know where you got your impression that I was talking about a lot of people.
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brian_d_foy on 2005-03-31T04:23:20
You didn't link "Other", you linked "Others". You used the plural. Why would you say "other" if you meant a single, particular person?
Ziggy was talking about windows. Tim Bray wasn't. You implied that he was by continuing Ziggy's metaphor.
You wrote it, not me. Have the balls to defend it if that's what you meant, or just declare "mea culpa".Re:
Aristotle on 2005-03-31T04:54:59
I’m surprised that of all the things I wrote recently, this is rather innocent seeming aside is the one to get backlash. All I could own up to is that what I wrote seems to imply something I didn’t intend it to. I guess I’m hereby doing that. I’m sorry if I offended anyone in some way am not aware of.
