I was just reading The Big Mac Dilemma, who asks:
Just like anything else non-free, it tempts you with shiny baubles and the promise of making all of your wishes come true. And just like anything else non-free, it shackles you into a sub-standard environment all the while telling you that your computer is now obviously superior. (Mail.app? Really? Oooh.. bouncing icons...)
I've been working on Drizzle recently, and in the not-so-terribly-long time we've been working together, we're already having to deal with people from the OSX camp complaining about library dependencies. I can't ingore them, because like Eric was saying, just about all the developers these days are running either OSX or Ubuntu. However, it seems that amongst the wonders and joys of running corporate evil from Apple, the powers that be at Apple haven't seen fit to bless you with the gift of a set of magical tools for, oh, I don't know Installing Packages and dealing with dependencies. Nevermind that Debian has had this for years and years and years now. Nevermind that even the slow-on-the-uptake folks at RedHat have finally started playing the game with YUM. (following CentOS' lead... but props for learning from your community RH!) What do you get from Apple - kings of "empowering" the user and providing a wonderful user experience? You get zilch.
Nada.
Nothing.
Why? Because Steve Jobs doesn't want you to have it. Because having an easily incrementally upgradable and extendable system does not help sell OS licenses. Because Apple does not care about you.
Because you have chosen to run a non-free OS.
And now there is nothing you can do about it
Yes, yes. I know. Fink. Darwin Ports, etc. I don't run OSX so I can't say empiracally, but each of these seem to have some deficiency that makes it unsuitable for a normal developer/user of OSX to use it to install libraries. I'd also like to point out that we're not talking about odd libraries here... we're talking about glib. Pretty stinking standard.
So go ahead, sell out. Buy a Mac. But when I want to use standard libraries to develop something and it's hard for you to install them... I have no sympathy. You are the one who placed control of your machine in the hands of someone else.
is using a Mac "selling out" from your OSS ideals?and I'd like to be very unfriendly and answer unequivocally... YES.
Just like anything else non-free, it tempts you with shiny baubles and the promise of making all of your wishes come true. And just like anything else non-free, it shackles you into a sub-standard environment all the while telling you that your computer is now obviously superior. (Mail.app? Really? Oooh.. bouncing icons...)
I've been working on Drizzle recently, and in the not-so-terribly-long time we've been working together, we're already having to deal with people from the OSX camp complaining about library dependencies. I can't ingore them, because like Eric was saying, just about all the developers these days are running either OSX or Ubuntu. However, it seems that amongst the wonders and joys of running corporate evil from Apple, the powers that be at Apple haven't seen fit to bless you with the gift of a set of magical tools for, oh, I don't know Installing Packages and dealing with dependencies. Nevermind that Debian has had this for years and years and years now. Nevermind that even the slow-on-the-uptake folks at RedHat have finally started playing the game with YUM. (following CentOS' lead... but props for learning from your community RH!) What do you get from Apple - kings of "empowering" the user and providing a wonderful user experience? You get zilch.
Nada.
Nothing.
Why? Because Steve Jobs doesn't want you to have it. Because having an easily incrementally upgradable and extendable system does not help sell OS licenses. Because Apple does not care about you.
Because you have chosen to run a non-free OS.
And now there is nothing you can do about it
Yes, yes. I know. Fink. Darwin Ports, etc. I don't run OSX so I can't say empiracally, but each of these seem to have some deficiency that makes it unsuitable for a normal developer/user of OSX to use it to install libraries. I'd also like to point out that we're not talking about odd libraries here... we're talking about glib. Pretty stinking standard.
So go ahead, sell out. Buy a Mac. But when I want to use standard libraries to develop something and it's hard for you to install them... I have no sympathy. You are the one who placed control of your machine in the hands of someone else.
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