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Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of 2010-05-07 00:10:20 +0200:

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> On 05/06/2010 10:14 PM, Chris Cannam wrote:

> > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, rosea.grammostola

> >   wrote:

> >> Interesting was also the confrontation between the OSX users from HKU

> >> and the open source advocates.

> >

> > What's that about?

>

> a not-totally-serious remark about the fact that many presenters were

> using mac os x to run their presentations, particularly those with a hku

> background.

>

> during the "future of lac" panel discussion, malte steiner made a very

> firm point that he did not want to see any more macbooks because of how

> steve jobs was currently gearing up for a nasty patent war and apple

> were generally behaving like dorks.

>

> i agreed in principle (mac is kinda half-evil), but i suggested to not

> take it out on its users (who might be as pissed off about apple's

> corporate policy as many open source advocates), but rather use more

> humourous means to raise awareness.

> (at some point, "hide your macbook" cropped up as the unofficial motto

> for lac2010, and someone proposed to offer case mods for frustrated

> users, to turn that logo into a pear, or maybe a carrot...)

>

> so no danger of an all-out os war ;)

I'm quite sure I saw a black pear book at one of the presentations :)

(don't remember which one tough...)
I'm not sure about the quality of the hardware, maybe it's decent, if

pricey, but apples policies sure aren't as good as they could be.

-- 
Regards,

Philipp
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