Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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2005-11-18
True. I think that there were originally roughly two groups who were attracted to GNU/Linux: people who wanted to use an affordable UNIX-workalike on i386 hardware, and people who use GNU/Linux because it is free software. (Yes, this is an overgeneralization.)
For the first group, the availability of source code under a free license is possibly an additional advantage, but they are not (fully) attached to it. It's not that surprising that people within this group switch to OS X on the desktop: it quacks like UNIX, it runs on relatively low-end/cheap hardware, and generally has less hassles than GNU/Linux.
This can clearly be seen in the BSD community. Many BSD users/developers use OS X on the desktop these days, and I'd say that they have historically been less attached to copyleft licenses et al.
Edited 2008-05-26 19:55 UTC