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To: Doren who wrote (16774)	8/17/1998 5:36:00 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213177

To Me! Just visited the Slash Dot linux geek site. Usually they have up to 50 comments on a particular topic. The iMac has prompted 327 remarks as of 2:34 AM Monday morning. A lot of hate here for proprietary architecture but at least they are fighting about it, it means that the iMac is stirring up PASSION. 207.218.152.131 207.218.152.131 From Me!

To: Doren who wrote (16774)	8/17/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Doren, I too am a linux geek, to a degree. The funny thing is we have an open system with Wintels. The OS is cheep and the CPUs are fast and that in essence provides a flat ground for program developers. Linux is free, however if you count your time at $1 per hour in figuring it all out it is way more expensive than Wintel. In addition the linux armada evolves very slowly with no supervisory discipline. It is like Darwinian evolution, your code is good we all use it, dead code eventually goes away. The net result is extreme stability as any found bug is publicly hunted and killed very quickly with groups of bug killers competing for bragging rights. Apple is a totally controlled hardware and software(OS) environment and leaves nothing for the geeks to play with. It reduces us all to appliance operators. Many want to tweak the engine, use funny gas etc so they are unhappy. Imac is a good start, it will act as an entry level for many. next thing is a super Imac and so on. As you know I dearly wanted some kind of open system for Apple, on the hardware and software side(with clones and OS sold as to my muc spoken plan). I still believe this will be needed in the future. To increase sales by 50% a year for ten years will bring apple to about 10-12% share by box count from the current 2-3% share by box count not $$ measure. Unless Apple does not want to regain former glory.(pardon me) Bill