<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
windows is good for sheeple<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">{macs are good for inDUHviduals who want to be just like everyone else}<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The only disagreement I'd have is that there are those of us in a professional/semiprofessional pursuit other than tech that requires vertical market software (music and drill design) usually only produced on Windows or OSX. When Linux does have an analogue, it is usually quite terrible to use and work with. Rather than use Windows, I'd rather use OSX. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Before we hit the "write it yourself" argument, remember that there are those of us who are not coders (outside of regular sysadmin shell/perl coding) and can't undertake a project of that magnitude.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Linux is freedom {from sheeple and inDUHviduals} <br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As long as you understand that with that freedom many times what you get is interfaces and design like a developer or engineer would create, not like a user interface designer would. Much of the OSS stuff I use in the Linux world is crazy useful, it's just generally ugly as heck.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yay! Freedom!<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yay! Freedom to use the best tool for the job, regardless of the platform! </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I feel better now....<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div>As do I. :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
--j</div>