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gump420:
What do you all think of Apple's efforts to kill off file metadata in Mac OS X (other than filename extensions)? Personally I think it's a steaming pile of horse dung, but I wanted to know what you all thought.

(I also needed an excuse to start a topic.  :cool:  )

[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: gump420 ]

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by gump420:
What do you all think of Apple's efforts to kill off file metadata in Mac OS X (other than filename extensions)? Personally I think it's a steaming pile of horse dung, but I wanted to know what you all thought.

(I also needed an excuse to start a topic.   :cool:   )

[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: gump420 ]
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I don't know how Apple proposes to change it but in my experience metadata for determining file content is *far* superior to using file extensions.  The is another cause for security problems in MS browsers, but I guess that's off topic.

gump420:
Well, Apple's proposition is to drop metadata entirely in favor of using only filename extensions. Supposedly, this is for compatibility, or some other bull, but it has all the traits of a stupid order handed down from some corporate moron.

Ahh, well . . . the pro metadata petition is at over 8,500 signatures and the anti petition is just over 500. Maybe Apple will bow to the pressure.

gump420:
oh, btw . . .

 http://www.petitiononline.com/osxmd/petition.html

 http://www.petitiononline.com/osxnomd/petition.html

Those are the links to the petitions in question. Feel free to read the anti and sign the pro!

gump420:
The Attitudinal column in the Macintosh Daily Journal just covered the OS X Metadata and Anti OS X Metadata petitions recently. Apparently the solution is for Apple to sack Tevinian; from the sound of it, nobody would miss him, either. (-;

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