Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Sep 2006 21:05 UTC, submitted by oferkv
"Apple has brought BSD back into the public eye by making it the foundation of its Darwin operating system, which is in turn the foundation of the OS X software platform. Apple is a strong believer in the orchestral model; Darwin distributions are skinny, reflecting Apple's willingness to make choices among dozens or hundreds of contenders in each functional category. Apple's selections become part of OS X. More than any commercial software platform, OS X is unified, consistent. And soon it will be Unix."
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2006-01-23
Technical incompetence? A good operating system shouldn't need technical expertise to copy or delete or rename a file. It shouldn't require someone to patch the source code of an application and build the application in order to edit a document.
If you choose to learn more about the operating system in order to congratulate yourself, that's great, but graphic designers and photographers and technical writers and television producers don't necessarily want or need to know what goes on behind the scenes.
In object-oriented programming, we write classes to handle the everyday things and we create and destroy objects based on them so we don't have to be bothered with the details each and every time. We end up focusing on the problem instead of the details of the programming language and most times, the machine details. Think about it--it's the same kind of thing.