{"id":787,"date":"2007-05-04T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=787"},"modified":"2007-05-04T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T11:22:19","slug":"mac-vs-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Mac vs Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell, the editor of Macworld, wrote a very sensible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/2007\/04\/opinion\/mayeic\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a> on how Mac and Windows users can co-exist.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve met a number of Linux jocks, all of whom learned their trade in very expensive schools, like MIT.  That, as far as I can figure out, is how most people get their entree to UNIX and UNIX-derivative world, which has always struck me as ironic.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve concluded from this that the antagonism of the Open Source community to all things Microsoft is more a form of social class snobbery than legitimate exception either to MSFT&#8217;s technology or to Bill Gates&#8217; business practices.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like doctors and nutritionists railing against fat people.  They are projecting their excessive discretionary income, a form of waste and self-indulgence, onto those who supposedly eat to excess.  In the process, the food fascists create excuses for their own guilt and bigotry.<br \/>\nSimilarly, those Open Source-ites who are wealthy and privileged have a subliminal contempt for those who are not, disguising their prejudices as faux intellectual purity.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s really a shame, since both camps offer benefits, both to the user and developer communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell, the editor of Macworld, wrote a very sensible editorial on how Mac and Windows users can co-exist. I&#8217;ve met a number of Linux jocks, all of whom learned their trade in very expensive schools, like MIT. That, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}