[NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux

[Brian Koontz]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:49:49PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> (a) Both Mac and MS are very opaque, and proprietary.

Actually, some aspects of OS X are very open (i.e., OpenDarwin) ,
others are very much proprietary (i.e., GUI APIs).  But to say that
the Mac is "very opaque" is quite a generalization.

I've not found a GNU or open source application yet that doesn't
compile and work under OS X...I'm sure there are some out there, but
the ones I need work just as if they're running on a Linux box.

  --Brian