[mdlug] Fashion-sensitive buys unix (iMac)

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Meier wrote:
> Trend watchers,
> 
> A friend who for the last decade has been a staunch Microsoft and
> Windows advocate just knowingly bought an iMac, after last year
> (unknowingly) buying a linux-inside box.

Technically, it's BSD-inside, but yes, it is a *nix ;-)

> This friend is a reliable indicator of what is fashionable.
> For over a decade they have disparaged unix,
> multiple desktops, permission systems,
> and in particular both Mac and linux,
> as "criminal" and "unusable".
> The sudden change comes as a shock,
> and within my experience,
> a reliable indicator of change in social standing.
> 
> My fear is that they generally accept anything only after it has
> become monopolized with a crippling markup.
> I hope that linux is not so destined.
> 
> Astoundly reporting,