How Apple makes more profit on their systems... By controling the support sphere

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>wrote:

> On 10/05/2009 12:36 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> >
> > Apple hasn't been as free with their hardware in the past (the 68k
> > systems) and the iPod/IPhone are in that group, but the x86 systems have
> > been fairly open to different OSen and software.
>
> FYI, NetBSD is pretty good on the 68k machines.
>

Yes, I've run NetBSD 1.3 on a IIci.  Booting is weird.  The NetBSD folks had
to do lots of reverse engineering.  The newer desktop machines have more of
the specs in the open.


> > The Gimp vs Photoshop is a good example.  Gimp can do everything
> > Photoshop does, but people like the look & feel of Photoshop.....
>
> GIMP has been properly likened to PhotoShop 5.5 in terms of features -
> but non-RBG color-spaces aren't even supported yet.  GIMP 2.8 is
> supposed to _finally_ have a single-window mode and incorporate
> GIMPShop-inspired GUI design elements.  Several forks have been done of
> GIMP because the GIMP management didn't want GIMP to be what other
> people wanted of it.
>
> Oh, and on Fedora GIMP will crash when a new document is created and the
> cursor is clicked on the canvas.  Disable VNC in the X server via an
> xorg.conf negation to get it to run.
>
> -Bill
>
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