From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263139AbVF3Up5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:45:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263149AbVF3UpM (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:45:12 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:22032 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263151AbVF3Uot (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:44:49 -0400 Message-ID: <42C45467.7070107@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:21:59 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-os@analogic.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again References: <1120134372.42c3e4e49e610@webmail.bur.st> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 shevek@bur.st wrote: > >> As far as I'm concerned, commercial trolls have successfully taken away >> linux's only ever chance to sweep the field. >> >> It is now gone. OSX rocks harder than linux, the spotlight function is >> superb. >> > [SNIPPED....] > > Sorry to feed the trolls, but I couldn't resist. Isn't OSX just > a commercial re-hash of BSD that Jobs "appropriated"? The performance > has been so poor with the PPC platform that Apple has been forced > to sign a pack with the devil and use ix86 in their future boxes. s/pack/pact/ It's not at all clear that Apple had a choice, please read comp.sys.intel for a long discussion I won't repeat. > > I'm not making this up! It would have been nice to have a competing > platform remaining to keep everybody honest. Now that Apple is > going Intel, we will be forced to use whatever the Indians provide. Or download OSX and run it elsewhere, or... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me