[OT] will amuse you Linux fans

[Richard Gaskin]

stephen barncard wrote:

> Not amusing to the look and feel people at Apple.
>
> the Icons are copied or very close. Not to mention about 20 other things.
> Can 'they' get away with this?

There have been Mac-like desktop environments for Linux for many years 
(never understood the attraction myself; I love OS X but only on a Mac, 
when I'm using Linux I want to use Linux).

MacBuntu is one of the more popular ones, noteworthy for being both a 
blatant rip-off of Apple's UI and also thumbing their nose the request 
from Canonical to reserve names ending in "buntu" for officially-support 
forks:
<http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Macbuntu?content=129021>

But historically the number of people using such DEs has been negligibly 
small.

While this would increase the number of people using a Mac-like UI on 
Linux, it's North Korea: if we're to believe the Western propaganda 
about their lifestyle, relatively few there have a computer at all, so 
at most it might double the number of such users.

Moreover, it's a rogue state beyond the influence of any international 
partners or laws.  Not even China's Xi Jinping can talk sense to Kim 
Jong-un;  I doubt Tim Cook could.

Looks like Apple have to rely on Dennis Rodman to settle this. :)

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