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Why I use a Mac

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IvoryTower:
VoidMan:

Good point   :D  

Seriously though, I think that puts the impetus on those who do know the difference to teach those who don't...if only one at a time. You can't let their ignorance deter you from making a good impression upon them.

BTW I'm not just talking about computers either...as you well know, education goes far beyond the binary world.

[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: IvoryTower ]

voidmain:
Well, my uncle is a high school teacher, and also happens to be the shool's computer guru "on the side". Last time I went home and saw him he was wearing a "Microsoft" polo shirt. I told him he was a sorry excuse for a human being (joking, I really like the guy). I have tried and tried and tried to get him interested in Linux and to use it at his school where he can. I told him the M$ police were going to come down on him like the other schools sooner or later and that he should stop wasting my tax payer dollars and do the right thing.

For some reason he's a tough nut to crack. He won't even try it (he says he will and I keep giving him the latest distro CDs but it never happens). I almost feel like taking a year off work and doing some charity work to get their school on the right foot. At least use a Mac. It might not save them a lot of money, but at least they won't be caught up in "License 6.0".

Calum:
i know plenty peopl elike him. Scared shitless on the inside they are, it's a basic human instinct.

That's what marketing is all about, ensnaring basic instincts without the advertisee knowing what's going on. And who's got the biggest and most effective marketing machine in computing today?
(and no, it's not Apple)

ravuya:
Is it wrong to feel elitist because you use an operating system where at least 70% of the users are capable of carrying on a coherent stream of thought without using homophobic slurs?

Calum:
maybe not elitist, but priveleged.

By contrast it seems to me that within the unix faction, the people who use it tend not to be derisive or elitist towards Microsoft users in the main, but instead dismiss them as hopeless cases, much like that thing about people's brains being badly trained for programming if they had had any experience of BASIC programming already.

The whole Microsoft versus unix thing has only been brought to the fore with the upsurge of desktop GNU/Linux boxes, while the "PC vs Mac" thing has been raging for a lot longer, so it's bound to have some stronger feelings behind it.

As you say though, the hate and puerility seem to originate almost exclusively from the Microsoft using side of the fence, and tends to be directed at anybody who is in some way "different". Maybe they have a base insecurity that they are loath to deal with.

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