From: Fa-groon on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:26:02 -0700, Mark Subtlework wrote
(in article <hr4eo7$919$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>):
<snip>
> But Maccies keep on buying. When big corporations get into it, the
> typical American buys anything. He buys cheap corn beers, Big Macs, $5
> toothbrushes, hoaxes like 9-11,

911 is a hoax? Tell that to the families of the 3000 or so killed in that
"hoax".



wars, and the Mac.

Now the Mac is a hoax? The machine I'm typing this on doesn't exist? I think
you should look up the word "hoax". You clearly don't understand what it
means...
>
> Anything goes... as long as it goes.

Why don't you "go" as well?


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on
Mr X <imouttahere(a)mac.com> writes:

> After the NeXT takeover, Apple has been the most open tech company
> around. Microsoft is full of proprietary APIs and locked-in and fully
> monopolized software markets. You get Excel and you like it, or else.
>
> Apple has ditched its proprietary approaches and layered their stuff
> over BSD, and provide OpenGL as the API for advanced uses.

It is a sad world, where the bad become good just because it didn't
change while all the others went worse.

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com