Seen in the Toronto Star: "Mac vs. PC: the digital divide"

idleone oneidle at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 01:23:05 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 18:46 -0500, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> I know that.  But that article didn't go down to that level: it was a
> discussion Mac vs PC, the OS, not the hardware.

I would have to argue that if the article was about Mac OS vs PC OS then
the writer knows nothing about what he is writing. AFAIK there is no PC
OS. 

> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's because linux runs on both mac/pc(which is hardware) heck it even
> > runs on other hardware like sun,ps3,watches,ipods so I don't think they
> > count linux as strictly PC or MAC which is basically down to hardware
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.thestar.com/living/article/766513--mac-vs-pc-the-digital-divide
> >>
> >> but the interesting bit from that article is that it contains quotes
> >> from David Patrick, co-owner of the Linux Caffe in Toronto about that
> >> PC vs Mac "debate" in local coffee shops.  But not once Linux is
> >> presented as an alternative to the other two.  It just felt weird
> >> considering the name of that coffee place.
> >>
> >>
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