Linked by David Adams on Tue 16th Aug 2005 19:10 UTC
In Virginia, patrons waiting in line to buy county school surplus iBooks for $50 started a riot when the doors opened, with an old man getting trampled, people crushing a baby stroller, and someone trying to run people down with his car. One iBook hopeful admitted that he used his folding chair as a weapon to fight off people who were trying to cut in line. Take a lesson from Steve Jobs, Henrico County: make them a little more expensive, and prevent the bloodshed. (Editor's note for the humor-impaired: no, I don't really think Macs are too expensive. I'm making fun of people who do)
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I read through some of those links that were provided for mac critics, and I just wanted to show a comment that I found:
Myth: Macs are proprietary.
Fact:Mac OS X is open at the source.
Mac OS X is based on an open source variant of FreeBSD. Developed entirely with openness and interoperability in mind, it incorporates the major open standards for directory services, programming and scripting languages, interprocess communications and arithmetic libraries. Apple hardware also uses industry standard management protocols and physical connectors.
http://www.apple.com/science/whymac/myths.html
Translation:
OS/X isn't proprietary, it's open at the source...that was already open when we took it, and then we made a proprietary operating system out of it that we won't even sell to pc users.
I don't mind the BSD part, it's the BS that I have a problem with.