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Since when does becoming an advocate for open source make that advocacy exclusive?


Thats not what I'm saying nor am I criticizing him for it. From prior experience, when I make something I can use on a daily basis, I would find it hard to use something different.

Also being an advocate for open source software would make it more difficult to transfer to being a closed source software user. I'm not saying its not possible or wrong, I just feel his case is a curious one.

He is effectively a self proclaimed Apple fanboy on Twitter etc, and I would like to know more about the circumstances.


>From prior experience, when I make something I can use on a daily basis, I would find it hard to use something different.

Well, I think he feels that Gnome failed to build something he can use on a daily basis. Back in 1998 it was all about overtaking Windows and building the platform for the future. That didn't pan out that well -- Windows are still dominant, and OS X is more prevalent and useful as a desktop system than Gnome is. Nowadays Gnome is bleeding developers (GTK, the very core toolkit of Gnome has like 1 maintainer) and mainstream distros even think of switching away from it.

You tend to get disappointed from such outcomes.




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