Gosling, OSX and XP

ziggy on 2002-03-30T17:08:29

From that same Gosling interview:

And from a personal point of view, I personally actually read the [Windows] XP license and decided I couldn't sign it. So I've been shifting over to Mac.

Add a grain or two of salt since Gosling is a Sun employee.

The Big Giant Head in the 1984 commercial was quite prescient. Except that he really wasn't talking about IBM-seller-of-the-pee-cee, but Microsoft-maker-of-monopolies: «our enemies' confusion will be our greatest weapon!» (paraphrased).

With that not in mind, forgive me if I fail to lapse into Redmondology for the moment. But the prospect of XP driving people to OSX (and OSX driving people away from XP) is a nice thought to ponder. Would that it were happening on a massive scale...