> ...which is hardly "more proprietary than MS", anyway, since OpenStep > does live, btw;-).
But certainly not PyObjc bindings for that :) > For me, just like for most people I've discussed it with, the reasoning > is similar. For example, Chip Turner (once of RedHat, and a major > contributor to RPM tools, now a colleague at Google) blogs at > <http://other-eighty.blogspot.com/> and has a few notes on the matter > (e.g. "there's nothing like sitting in the middle of a meeting and > having the ONLY WORKING LAPTOP in the room. Wireless AND suspend, both > working..." -- that's about his Powerbook;-). I'd say Chip mostly > switched from Linux to Mac for the same reason he mostly switched from > Perl to Python though he was a CPAN contributor too. Others feel even > more strongly: e.g., Rob Pike, another colleague, apparently just > dislikes Linux technically (mostly, I think, X11, but not just that) and > that's why he uses Macs (Windows isn't even in the picture, of course). I'm pretty satisfied with linux sitting on my desktop. But I totally agree with you and whomever else that it certainly is a major PITA when it comes to the niceties of mobile computing, including power-save-modes and WLAN. No, I _don't_ want to trick some M$-WLAN-Drivers into running under Linux. And spend 2 1/2 Weeks exploring unknown depths of my ACPI-Bios-support. >> So - it seems that quality is important, and of course any decent Hacker >> will run a *nixish OS. > > Not necessarily: Tim Peters, among my top choices for "top Hacker in the > PSF" Lifetime Award, prefers Windows. So, s/any/most/...!-) Ok. I'll take that back then. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
