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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 22:47 UTC, submitted by tyrione

Linus Torvalds, leader of the cult of Linux, took a swipe at Apple's OS X and Microsoft Vista in the same breath at a conference in Australia last week. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago, Torvalds called Leopard 'utter crap' and bashed the proprietary OS makers for being greedy, according to Australian reporter Nick Miller in the The Age. "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," Torvalds said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." He also scoffed at his rivals' practice of revenue-through-renewal by launching upgrades that require new purchases. "An operating system should be completely invisible," Torvalds said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment - to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware."

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RE: Comment by moleskine

by B. Janssen on Fri 8th Feb 2008 10:00 UTC in reply to "Comment by moleskine"

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Besides, it seems to be he makes a rather good point in at least one regard: "An operating system should be completely invisible," Torvalds said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment -- to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware." Read that sentence, then recall all the recent arguing bwetween Microsoft and the EU over opening up protocols, or fire up Windows and ask yourself why it doesn't read Linux file formats (without third-party plugins).

Agreed, but it makes me wonder why he basically showed a *shrug* response to Tivo's attempt to lock its devices.

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