Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3211

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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:38:33 -0700, GreyCloud

Whoops - you're doing the same thing he's doing - conflating "easy for Joe Sixpack" to be equivalent to "easy".

As I keep pointing out to him, the examples he offers may be "easy" for him, but they actually, based on what he's shown so far, would make *my* job more difficult, not easier. Not even as easy.

I don't dispute that a GUI makes many tasks easier. Nor do I dispute that OSX, *for those tasks*, may well be easier than, say, Windows.

What I *do* dispute is his blanket claim that OSX has "ease of use" and the other guys, apparently, don't... because, as has been shown before, his system apparently can't even perform a task which I need done, let alone do it as easily... and forget about easier.

Sure, OSX might be easier for some things. That does not make it easier for everything... and if he's going to claim "ease of use" and expect it to be treated as meaningful, he's going to have to show how I can do my jobs as easily or more so, using his tools, than I'm already doing with mine. Failing that, his use of the term "ease of use" is relegated to meaningless hand-waving.

Maybe we should vote for him. After all, wasn't that other dude voted in, by the Council of Nicea, as I recall? :)

-- MS, because work should be measured by effort, rather than result.