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IP: James Gosling on his switch to Mac
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:27:42 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Kai Lui <kai () kailui com> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:07:48 -0400 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: James Gosling on his switch to Mac Posted on the Mac EvangeList by David Fung - <http://www.MacEvangeList.com>: ----------------------------- Thought you'd all find this article interesting: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=663622 James Gosling, chief scientist at Sun and the creator of Java, talks in this interview about his dislike of the MS Windows XP license - so much so that he's switched to using a number of Macs. It's the last question in the article. Many say Gosling is the pre-eminent software engineer in the world today. Glad he likes OSX... Q: You said you've been shifting over to Macintosh computers, due to issues you have with the Windows XP license. Can you expand on that? A: I've decided that people have been taking up the Mac, and it's been doing better, and Linux is trying to become credible. ... I guess I've got Linux machines and PCs around, and I'm kind of getting to the point where there's actually nothing that I absolutely need that's on a PC anymore -- that's only on the PC. And one of the things that always mystifies me is how anybody in corporate America will run [Microsoft's] Outlook [mail client]. I mean to say that, "they don't have a security story," is being very charitable. I mean, it's a petri dish. Opening a piece of e-mail in Outlook is really asking for it. ... For PCs at home, ... I used to do some home building. But now that's all I do because you can't actually buy a machine that doesn't have XP on it. And if you just happen to be lucky enough to have some of the install disks for Win 2k, I mean, Win 2k was like the last halfway tolerable license. Q: So you do use Windows machines? A: Oh, I use them a lot. I've got five of them at home. ... Three are Windows 2000 and two are actually Windows 98. And those two need some serious upgrading. Q: But you said you're shifting to Mac. A: Yeah. The thing that kind of broke it for me is that I needed a new laptop, and ... Apple switched toOS X ... it's become a really incredible desktop machine. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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