...all my friends on the OS X platform keep showing me great little utilities and other things that are being released almost daily. What happened? Apple embraced Unix and by doing that Apple embraced developers.

Why? There's a lot of Unix expertese out there. Lots of kids learned Unix in school. Lots more learned it on the job. Now Apple has joined a nice user interface with Unix, and developers are taking notice.

This is a significant post. Very, very telling. Scoble has been a hard-core Microsoft guy for years now. Though he went to Microsoft from the Mac platform many years ago, he's no Mac Moonie. (In fact, there are very few of those left, and they're holding on to the classic OS with a bloody death-grip of denial.) He's a smart user who cares about the people who matter most: independent developers. He's watching where the wind blows, and writing very wisely about it.

Here's what I think (at 11am on a Monday in May): Apple is doing a lot of things right (or close enough), and their circle of the development Venn diagram is overlapping hugely with the UNIX community, including committed open source folks, commercial "solutions" developers and all those science types for whom UNIX is simply a universal environment [~] and they're still highly compatible with Microsoft as a fellow platform vendor. Yes, there's reason to be concerned about Steve Jobs' Hollywood connections (Apple is in the BPDG), he's clearly his own man, and blessedly free of the antitrust lawsuits that have terribly damaged Microsoft's spirit (no matter how much they may deny it). The energy coming off Apple right now is very stong and positive. People there are having fun. They're competitive, but not combative (a critical advantage over Microsft's only serious [~] but perhaps fatal [~] character flaw)

Another point for Mac OS X. Very well reasoned. Also Doc's comment are, as usual, right on the money. I am amazed at what had happened with Mac OS X.

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Stephen Jay Gould, Biologist and Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 60. Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University who helped to reinvigorate the field of paleontology, died today. He was 60 years old. By Carol Kaesuk Yoon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Sad Day. I've read all of Gould's book, they are so clearly written and so entertaining. We have lost a great person today

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