Comments on: Confession time… http://www.joelafferty.com/2007/06/11/confession-time/ ...enabling purposeful conversations... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/2007/06/11/confession-time/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Joe Lafferty Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:41:56 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=26#comment-415 OK rick - thanks for the educational links! OK, I conceed on open source, but there is a lot more software available for PCs! (oh dear, am in my right mind taking on a fully fledged card carrying mac geek supremo???!!!) OK rick – thanks for the educational links! OK, I conceed on open source, but there is a lot more software available for PCs! (oh dear, am in my right mind taking on a fully fledged card carrying mac geek supremo???!!!)

]]> By: Rick Curran http://www.joelafferty.com/2007/06/11/confession-time/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Rick Curran Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:39:44 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=26#comment-404 Hi Joe! Sorry, I'm taking you to task about the following line! ;) "(but they tie you into all their software, unlike PC?s who have access to TONS of open source options)." There's tons of Open Source software for Mac, in fact Mac OSX is built on top of Open Source software, the core of which, 'Darwin' is open source itself. There's also many apps available such as Open Office, Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc, etc... Here's a few links to help educate you ;) Apple's Open Source pages: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ Mac OSX Open source downloads: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ Open Source Mac: http://www.opensourcemac.org/ Cheers! Rick Hi Joe!

Sorry, I’m taking you to task about the following line! ;)

“(but they tie you into all their software, unlike PC?s who have access to TONS of open source options).”

There’s tons of Open Source software for Mac, in fact Mac OSX is built on top of Open Source software, the core of which, ‘Darwin’ is open source itself. There’s also many apps available such as Open Office, Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc, etc…

Here’s a few links to help educate you ;)

Apple’s Open Source pages:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Mac OSX Open source downloads:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/

Open Source Mac:
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

Cheers!

Rick

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