Linux drove me to get a Mac

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 9 03:23:21 UTC 2009


Kamran Khan wrote:
> Sadly you don't get it.  It would seem that many of your cohorts on the 
> list do not either.  For example the solution to print on Linux(Desktop) 
> is to buy a postscript printer.  The solution to allow me to sync my SE 
> Smart Phone with applications running on the Linux Desktop is?  Yes I 
> know, buy hardware that works with Linux.  Like I said you don't get 
> it.  I fail to see how your operating system empowers you when clearly 
> you are a slave to it.

I can change mine if I don't like it. That's a textbook definition of 
empowerment if I ever encountered one. The same cannot be said to nearly 
the same degree of other closed proprietary operating systems, to which 
many of their users are truly enslaved.

Jamon
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