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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
OS X combines uniquely both "looks" as well as OS functionality and there is no question about that.
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Ok, now how did they get the "OS" functionality in OSX? With UNIX? If you want to get down to it, I could be complaining that Apple has ripped out their OS and installed UNIX underneath, where's the innovation? But I don't do that. I applaud them for doing it. I think Microsoft should do it. I just think that the pissing contests about who ripped who off are pointless (unless you are ripping on Microsoft).
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
hmm let's reword it a bit:
"The Windows client hardly runs any applications except a bunch of shareware stuff that
psyjax:
You can run GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment, and WindowMaker on OSX. I understand teh concepts, it's pretty cool.
The thing that even got me on this crap was messing with this App, that turns the Finder 3d. So browsing your files becomes more like playing some wierd FPS.
Anyway, it occured to me that things can be done in a diffrent way, and if I were one of those programmers out to change the world like the open source folks, I would probably be trying things in a VERY diffrent way.
To say tht GUI's are irelivant when it comes to the OS is only partialy true. The fact that they are so prevalent is testament to their importance.
In the early days of the Mac OS, the whole concept was branded WIMP environment by UNIX heads. Who thought the whole thing was stupid and ludacriss, and yet Many UNIX programms now REQUIRE GUI software in order to be able to use.
So that's my take on that. As for inovation, I think open source is the way to go. We just need more open source "innovators" :D to build something truely Revolutionary.
NOTE: I am talking in reffrence to *NIX's as a desktop common user platform, not as a high-end workstation or server which I don't think anyone would deny it's TOTAL inovation and supperiority.
[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
Pantso:
It all depends on how you define functionality. for example in your case the term functionality would be debatable, since you use your OS for highly specialized tasks. However, in most cases the term functional would translate into being able to perform every day tasks easily, effortlesly and painlessly.
Now, in the first case I would choose Linux (hell I'm still using it and have been using it since '97) but in the second case I would choose OS X, no question about that. Depends really on how you intend to use your OS.
As for your UNIX copying argument, you are partly wrong. You can work with Darwin and BSD in full text mode if you like and explore OS X in depth.
In conclusion, I both Linux and OS X are functional OSs, each one in its own way. Anyway, this kind of discussion is really pointless and I tottaly agree with you there.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
As for your UNIX copying argument, you are partly wrong. You can work with Darwin and BSD in full text mode if you like and explore OS X in depth.
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I guess you misunderstood me. psyjax's complaint was that he thought Gnome "copied" the looks of a particular feature in Apple's GUI. He complained that there was no innovation. My counter to that was, why did Apple put UNIX under the hood with OSX? Where's the innovation? Why copy?
The point I was trying to make was you can't complain about it on one end and accept it as OK on the other end (unless someone would like to make the claim that Apple invented UNIX).
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