[OT] will amuse you Linux fans

[Mike Kerner]

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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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