[OT] will amuse you Linux fans

[Richmond]

On 04/02/14 17:42, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 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. :)

I suspect this problem, and a whole lot more important ones, will be 
settled by South Korea in due course.

Richmond.

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