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OSDir: Editorial: Having Bitten the Forbidden Fruit, It Bit Me Back. Six Times.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2004

[ Thanks to Steve for
this link. ]

“I’m a long time Linux user. Let there be no mistake. I have
Linux servers out the ying yang. But, two years ago I was smitten
with OS X and the easy wireless connectivity that iBooks could give
me. Two years later I’m abandoning OS X and Apple.

“Let me paint the picture. I was at the O’Reilly Emerging
Technology conference in 2002. Blogging was just getting hot and so
was geek talk about OS X. iBooks were awash at the conference.
Folks were checking their email from home, reading their favorite
websites, some were blogging live at conference sessions, and I was
stuck with going to the gallow that was the connectivity room on
the basement floor with only the odd attendee there to remind me I
wasn’t at the conference by myself.

“I had an great 15″ Dell Inspiron with Redhat or Mandrake on it
at the time. I loved that thing when I went to LinuxWorld a few
months before. Now I wasn’t so sure…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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