[TriLUG] Re: Macs (was RFC: Mailing list protocol FAQ entry)

[chris at bullocksbarn.com]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:34:36PM -0500, Tarus Balog wrote:
> 
> On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:59 PM, chris at bullocksbarn.com wrote:
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> >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:03:21PM -0500, William Sutton wrote:
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> >lets not forget about Macs, even though they run on BSD, IMHO they have
> >nothing to do with Linux.  If you are against closed source you HAVE to
> >be against Macs
> >
> 
> I'm assuming this is troll bait, right? Darwin, the underlying O/S in  
> Panther is open, as is most of the software I run on my Mac. While I  
> wouldn't ask a Mac-specific question on this list, since much of the  
> software you run on Linux runs natively on Mac via the fink project,  
> from the Gimp to KDE to OpenOffice, I think that many Mac questions  
> would be valid here.

I run The gimp and OpenOffice on my Windows machine, as well as putty,
Mozilla, Nmap, firebird, Thunderbird, GPG, does this mean I can post
Windows ?s, I think not.
--cgb