Paolo writes about Apple immigrants. "These people were true Mac nerds, but for some reason switching to Windows they didn't become Windows nerds but simply Windows users." Attsa me, Dave Winer. I use Windows, exactly as I used to use a Mac. I resigned as a Mac user, not over Amelio, as Paolo says, but over the religion. I like using a computer just as a computer. Apple could have kept me, if they had embraced the standards of the Web. Instead they tried to get the Web to balkanize over QuickTime, Cyberdog and OpenDoc. Yuck. I went with the mainstream. Apple's proposition was more slavery, the Web offered an enticing freedom, for a while, until Microsoft killed Netscape. Oh well. It's too much trouble to learn a new OS now. Why bother. [Scripting News]

I really hope I never feel it's too much trouble to learn a new OS. I've used every single one I could lay my hands on. But attitudes like this expressed by leaders of the software industry may make that there aren't going to be too many new OS's. How sad.

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