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   From: cheney@halliburton.com   
      
   On 2005-02-13, Liam Slider  wrote:   
      
   > I'm guessing, just guessing from *all* the reports, that Linux is just   
   > a lot less polished on PPC hardware than it is on x86 hardware. I guess   
   > it'll have to catch up if we want to snag Mac users.   
      
   Mac OS is not like Windows. A large proportion of the Windows   
   user base runs Windows not because they like it but because   
   that's what everybody else runs. Mac OS users, on the contrary,   
   _like_ Mac OS. Those who don't switched to Windows years ago. I   
   think that attracting the average Mac OS user is going to be a   
   lot harder than attracting the average Windows user.   
      
   Unix and Mac OS were designed for different people and made   
   different trade-offs. A Linux distro tailored to "snag" Mac   
   users could be a nightmare for Unix people.   
      
   --   
   André Majorel    
   Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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