I know it’s not the point of the weblog, but a paragraph just jumped out at me.

For me, the perfect destkop has already been built: Mac OS X. Yes, I know of the inconsistencies in this (I’m a free source bigot and Apple may well be the most proprietary company on the planet, in more ways than source code). I just can’t help it.

— Matt Asay, The Open Road

If you really wanted to help it, you could. When you find yourself replacing Apple’s proprietary

Maybe you’re not a freedom guy. Maybe you promote open source because you believe that it makes demonstrably better software, through the process of user feedback and enlightened self-interest leading to greater contributions of code, bugs, documentation, and support.

Maybe there’s a third possibility I don’t see… but it seems a bit inconsistent to suggest that there’s a perfect desktop already, one which leaves you no choice as to what to support..

Original post by chromatic