Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.freeware,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:52:15 -0700 Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: <5612928c$0$49041$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> <051020151258277615%nospam@nospam.invalid> <3ZSdnZTmLryQJ4_LnZ2dnUU7-VmdnZ2d@supernews.com> <051020151617595944%nospam@nospam.invalid> <061020151150097105%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5mg7m4iCt5+b6E4lFp01Jgj0UxgPZRV3sueFz8bDX2nCVpLuYp Cancel-Lock: sha1:pQlsO9oATthBnrgum5vmCPtUFNo= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdEBOaoorwB+Pr/7rka3M2qCEVutFA== Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82335 alt.comp.freeware:245459 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325392 On 10/7/15, 12:44 PM, in article mv3sj4$29r$1@dont-email.me, "Peter Köhlmann" wrote: > GreyCloud wrote: > >> On 10/06/15 12:58, Peter Köhlmann wrote: >>> Snit wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/6/15, 11:40 AM, in article mv14fg$nfs$2@dont-email.me, "Peter >>>> Köhlmann" wrote: >>>> >>>>>>>> linux has *less* choice because of the sheer lack of quality >>>>>>>> software >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Mac users have the choice to run Photoshop and such, and Linux users >>>>>>> don't, therefore Mac users have more choice than Linux users." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Really? Is that the definition of choice? The huge variety that >>>>>>> Linux offers (both "ready to run" and the limitless possibilities >>>>>>> that being open-source offers) count for nothing, in the "choice >>>>>>> sweepstakes"? >>>>>> >>>>>> Irrelevant since OS X runs open source software as well. >>>>> >>>>> A tiny subset of it >>>> >>>> Most of what Linux does >>> >>> Most from linux is *not* available. >> >> It isn't? Now what ever happened to this open source code? >> Isn't it GPL stuff? Are you claiming that this software is close-source? > > Since when will software modify itself just because it is GPL? Given that nobody said it would you are making things up. > It is problematic to port linux/unix GUI softwware to OSX. You have to run > it under X (which is incredibly shitty on Macs) or you have to rewrite GUI > code. So you run it under X which OS X runs or you make it work on the Mac better by making it for the Mac. OK. > So for that reason alone a lot of linux code is *not* available for > Macs. Such as? > Only stuff which is written from the start with portable code (like Qt > programs) are usually easy to port to OSX Why not name a few programs that run on Linux but not OS X (even under X, which you can get for OS X). And off Peter runs again. Count on it. Not that there cannot be any such software but it would require Peter having a clue, and he does not. Heck, I am not a programmer (and Peter claims to be) but on seeing the output of a program I wrote and having full access to the code he STILL insisted the output had to be doctored. He could not even imagine how my program could work. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: