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Mon, 28 July 2008 08:30

TCB
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Ah, the plight of the brutally oppressed Mac user. I was working at a university
in the mid-90's when we gently suggested that, since there were very serious
questions as to whether Apple could continue as a going concern, it might
be a good idea for Mac-centric departments at least diversify their platform
choices. Just hedge a bit, with either *nix or Windows machines. For giving
this excellent advice (still a good idea today) we were treated as platform
nazis out to 'get their Macs.' Keep in mind at that point I was still writing
a column for xlr8yourmac, not exactly a platform hater.

IT departments are charged with a different mission that home users. To this
day where I work I don't tell people what computers, operating systems, and
applications they can or can't use. It's not my job, or my place to tell
them that, what I CAN tell them is what I can promise them I will support.
I tell them that if they're running a laptop I set up with an operating system
I know if it breaks I'll fix it. If they want to use Mail on a OS X or check
IRC using emacs on a minix machine, more power to them, but I can't say for
sure that I can fix things if they break.

But anyway, you're right, we're all out to 'ban' your Macs.

TCB

"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>In the early 1990's at the univ. I worked at, the IT guys tried to
>ban macs. If they found one in your dept. they would ridicule you
>and tried to enforce a "no mac" campus standard. They would talk about
>market share and comparisons to VHS vs. Betamax were tossed about
>freely.
>
>In the mid 1990's, my wife's dept head actually banned macs from the dept.
>
>Both the IT director and my wife's dept. head got canned, thankfully,
>but more importantly, let me be the first to declare the platform wars
>over.
>
>Apple is now #3
>
> http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Claws+Its+Way+Closer+to+the+T op+in+Retail+PC+Sales/article12409.htm
>
>Who'da thunk?
>
>So, let me say to all the geek doomsayers and PC nazis
>
>Bite Me. You were wrong all along. Get a life.
>
>Apple has developed into the BMW of comp. companies. My new
>8-core could not be more elegantly designed and built. Putting in
>more RAM was like working on a beautiful sports car and Leopard makes
>both Vista and XP look like bathroom grafitti in comparison.
>
>Cheap? No, but worth it, and there really is no competition if you care
>about the things it offers.
>
>Oh, and a guy from Apple spent hours with me sorting out my ethernet
>troubles.
>
>Nothing against PC's, but the platform wars are over. You pays yer
>nickel and takes yer choice.
>
>DC
>
>oh and with VM Fusion, I can put XP over here and Leopard over there
>on the same machine and the same monitor. Or on mon. 2 of an extended
>desktop.

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		OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Sun, 27 July 2008 23:18
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:30
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:06
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:28
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:01
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Ed on Thu, 31 July 2008 10:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Thu, 31 July 2008 12:49
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 04:07
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 19:48
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Fri, 01 August 2008 12:52
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 04 August 2008 00:04
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 04 August 2008 09:02
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:23
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:43
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Tue, 29 July 2008 06:49
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Bill L on Mon, 28 July 2008 20:56
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Tue, 29 July 2008 11:55
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Tue, 29 July 2008 15:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 00:52
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		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:58
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:11
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Kim W on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:46
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