Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 13:53 UTC, submitted by IndigoJo
Alcibiades' recent article hit some sensitive nerves. One of our readers wrote a retort, stating: "The reader will notice that this author glosses over two important issues in attacking the Mac community. One of these is that Windows, at least since 95, has always been notorious for its reliability and security issues. He does not mention the 'Blue Screen of Death' even once. He does not mention the fact that, to run Windows reliably, you need anti-virus software which costs extra (unless it came bundled with the machine), and uses extra system resources. He does not mention the continual updates, which as time goes on, detract from the performance of Windows - or even that the last fresh Windows OS was released as long ago as 2001."
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2005-06-29
The article against Apple was well written. It was no essay and it didn't prove anything; but it was in good nature and the largely rhetorical arguments were fair and based on real facts.
This article was nothing more than a rant. It wasn't terribly coherent and had no flow. And it didn't prove anything either. It was marked by generalities like "Linux doesn't have commercial apps" and "Linux can't do GUI configs" and "some consider OS X Office to be better" and "I have no clue how openoffice is designed, but since there's just one exe I'll assume it loads all the libs when I load that."