[Novalug] RHN Satellite

American Dave Kline novalug at soupy.org
Tue Jan 17 20:14:03 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:44:28PM -0500, William Sutton wrote:
> Apple has a working, consistent UNIX-based OS that Just Works.  Why
> not Linux or the various *BSD clones, if "free" software is truly
> superior?

Much of OSX is based off of the BSD's, FreeBSD and NetBSD in particular.
Without Free and Open Source software, there would be no Apple OSX.  Or
Microsoft Windows for that matter.

> I think there is far too much of a self-satisfied superiority
> complex among "free" software users who, secure in their own
> abilities and convinced of their own infallibility, sneer at
> everything else, regardless of its technical merits.

It looks like we're veering pretty far off-topic.  But then the "topic" 
was more of a rant anyway.

Best regards,
-A. Dave


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