[Linux-Discussion] Re: Mac OS-X is crap!
- From: Matteo Ianeselli <ianezz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:01:41 +0200
Nils Vogels writes:
> Linus Torvalds has spoken. Apple's MacOS X, he says, is "a piece of
> crap".
Well, to be even more fair, *in 1997* he said that the Mach
microkernel (which is at the core of kernels like Darwin, MkLinux, and
GNU Hurd) is crap. Which doesn't automatically mean he consider MacOS
X crap *now*, as some hit-hungry websites would like to imply.
Linus is far from being always right, he knows it and often reserves
himself the right to change his mind, after all even Tannenbaum
changed his mind and released Minix under a BSD license (yes, with the
annoying advertising clause, unfortunately, but it couldn't be done
differently).
Anyway, the recipe used by the hit-hungry sites above is simple:
when the hit rate is low, take something someone said some time ago,
give it the broadest interpretation you can, apply such interpretation
to something happening today and write a contentless article about
what you just discovered, leaving space for all sort of speculations
and rants by readers. A decent hit rate is then assured for the next
few days. Repeat from time to time (but not too often, unless you want
to completely discredit yourself as an information source).
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