Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of 2010-05-07 00:10:20 +0200: > On 05/06/2010 10:14 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, rosea.grammostola > > <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Interesting was also the confrontation between the OSX users from HKU > >> and the open source advocates. > > > > What's that about? > > a not-totally-serious remark about the fact that many presenters were > using mac os x to run their presentations, particularly those with a hku > background. > > during the "future of lac" panel discussion, malte steiner made a very > firm point that he did not want to see any more macbooks because of how > steve jobs was currently gearing up for a nasty patent war and apple > were generally behaving like dorks. > > i agreed in principle (mac is kinda half-evil), but i suggested to not > take it out on its users (who might be as pissed off about apple's > corporate policy as many open source advocates), but rather use more > humourous means to raise awareness. > (at some point, "hide your macbook" cropped up as the unofficial motto > for lac2010, and someone proposed to offer case mods for frustrated > users, to turn that logo into a pear, or maybe a carrot...) > > so no danger of an all-out os war ;) I'm quite sure I saw a black pear book at one of the presentations :) (don't remember which one tough...) I'm not sure about the quality of the hardware, maybe it's decent, if pricey, but apples policies sure aren't as good as they could be. -- Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
