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> about OS X, and that hate is all the more pertinent for me since it > could have been based on the most modern OS out there (BeOS) *choke* I've used BeOS. I've even been excited about BeOS. I used to be pissed off about Apple giving BeOS the cold shoulder. But as I got more familiar with it, and watched Palm floundering around not releasing the BeOS-based Palm OS 6 long after they should have... I've been more and more glad Apple stayed the hell away from it. I don't have time to begin to address my BeOS hate, I'm not sure that much time exists. I'll just say that I can understand them reinventing the wheel, but they should have actually looked at some of the *round* ones available before deciding that a triangle made a better wheel than a pentagon. Oh, and putting necessary metadata in the file system, outside the file, where it is GUARANTEED to get lost as son as you have to deal with the fact that nobody else in the whole world does it the same way as you even if they're daft enough to think it's a good idea, is hateful in so many ways... > toning down their lickability, and they still haven't fucking figured > out filetyping. Filename extensions? Seriously? No, seriously? > Really? *faints* Directories, dude. All the advantages of file types and resource forks, and they don't go BOOM when you back them up. > At least Linux is so far from the mark that it doesn't offend me; OS X > could have been a contender (and who knows, maybe they'll go back and > reassess some of the other great features in BeOS, now that Spotlight is > copying BFS), Um, no, it's not, and that's a GOOD thing.There's stuff above here
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