Re: Apple are the anti-google.

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Fry's blog is brilliant - first time I have seen it and i'll
certainly be keeping an eye on it from now on... spotted he mentioned
the Agenda, the quirky little five finger gesture input device - now
there was a cool idea.

Sorry for ranting, I just really, really dislike Apple as a corporate
entity - I like the Mac Mini, and could even be tempted by a
Powerbook, but I just find the company's behaviour to be so Orwellian
it's just horrible.

>From killing off their partners by email, to disabling third party
components to force people to buy their own add-ons, to being the
absolute darlings of DRM and now the suggestion that they will
disable iPhones, because people have bought them and tried to use
them on other networks? It's just such a control freak attitude.

Microsoft clearly have excessive power in the marketplace.. but holy
hell, could you imagine what it would be like if Apple had that sort
of market power?? we would be in the world of complete and total DRM
lockdown and pay per play, never mind pay per track!

Glad to hear you are making peace with windows - I'm currently
falling for Ubuntu again - 7.04 is just the smoothest darn linux
experience ever. I installed it on a laptop here and it went on
*flawlessly* - booted the live CD, ran the "install ubuntu"
script on
the desktop and it did the trick, perfect first time. In contrast, XP
needed me to hunt down drivers from the web - talk about role
reversal.

The coolest thing for me is that SADMS seems to have reached maturity
(well, it works, at any rate) - "Samba as Active Directory Member or
Server", which lets you use your AD user details to log into a linux
workstation. awesome stuff.

:D