EX Linspire CEO a secret MAC addict!

[John]

http://www.kevincarmony.com/

I used to have a lot of respect for Kevin Carmony, I thought he was a straight forward guy. Now it appears he has abandoned all his principles and turned to the dark side, what a shame

John

[Tsuroerusu]

http://kevincarmony.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... -over.html

... Next, came the MacBook Air. We needed a Mac computer at our office to test our website's compatibility with Apple machines. So, I figured I'd buy a MacBook Air for the testing, and I could try using it when I traveled. Within a few days, I was completely hooked, so much so that I found my self avoiding my desktop computers running Ubuntu and Windows. In less than a week of owning the Air, I purchased a Mac Pro with 4 gigs of RAM and looped it into my KVM. I found myself using the Mac pretty much all the time. Unlike the first time when I moved to Linux, and had to force myself to use it, Mac was so smooth, easy, beautiful, and fun to use, it was hard to stop.

The Mac has everything I love about Linux (fast, secure, uncluttered, Unix-based, etc.) but the software and services were so nicely put together, not to mention how "beautiful" everything looks. The way everything integrates and works together, including the .mac services, is great.

I still appreciate the speed of Ubuntu, and how far they've come (for a free operating system, it's quite amazing), but for sheer joy in daily computing, I admit, I'm hooked on my Mac.

I'm sure some reading this will feel I've sold out and given up on the Open Source movement. Well, after six years, it's no longer my fight, and I just want a computer that's easy, fun and productive to use. I don't have the source code to my car, TV, Tivo, Sonos, microwave oven, refrigerator, or my tennis shoes, but because they just work, I don't need it. I'm no longer interested in using software to support a cause or movement. I just want to use software to get stuff done.

So, until someone comes along with something better, you can find me using my iPhone and Macs.

Kevin

Kevin can use whatever he wants to, I personally couldn't care less.

However for the former CEO of a company who have more GPL violations on his record than anybody, I am not surprised at all that he switched to Mac.

[greggh]

I still appreciate the speed of Ubuntu, and how far they've come (for a free operating system, it's quite amazing)

Does anyone else get the feeling that he doesn't understand what "free" in "free operating system" really means?

but for sheer joy in daily computing, I admit, I'm hooked on my Mac.

In my mind "joy in computing" only comes with "freedom in computing". But, to each his own.

[Tsuroerusu]

I still appreciate the speed of Ubuntu, and how far they've come (for a free operating system, it's quite amazing)

Does anyone else get the feeling that he doesn't understand what "free" in "free operating system" really means?

Indeed, but it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I've listened to various interviews with the guy, and also watched a speech he once gave at some Linspire-sponsored Linux event. This guy doesn't get free software at all.

but for sheer joy in daily computing, I admit, I'm hooked on my Mac.

In my mind "joy in computing" only comes with "freedom in computing". But, to each his own.

Same goes for me.

[allix]

Its good he has left the community, good riddance !