Re: [NTLK] Platform crap...

From: SlashDevNull (SlashDevNull_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 17:43:31 EST


You're so vain,
You're so vain,
I bet you think this rant is about you,
Don't you, don't you, don't you. :)

David

> On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 14:26, SlashDevNull wrote:
>> These people that HATE Apple but LOVE their products or LOVE one of them.
>> So they buy ONLY what they NEED from Apple and they spend their time
>> denouncing Apple in every forum or conversation that they can bring up.
>
> But that's not me. I have a 50/50 relationship with Apple. I wouldn't
> have all this deep intimate knowledge of AppleTalk, for instance, if I
> simply spent time flaming everything Apple. Just because I don't like
> the company doesn't mean I'm not interested in their tech. I think OS X
> is about the coolest thing since Linux kernel 2.0, and the G3 and G4
> boxes are really really slick.
>
> So, I see that the attitude you're talking about roasts your chacas, but
> I wasn't flipping that attitude around; you're tilting at windmills.
>
> (*shrug) Amusing that we managed to avoid a platform war -proper-, but
> have gotten into a kind of meta-platform-war about the nature of various
> types of platform warriors.

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