http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/06/19/reverse-switchers/ coding in the rain Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/06/19/reverse-switchers/#comment-24 Steve Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:45:50 +0000 http://ascarter.net/blog/2006/06/19/reverse-switchers/#comment-24 While you are correct in saying that they can get lots of open source software for OS X, the point I think you miss is that many of these reverse switches have decided that it doesn't make sense to subsidize a proprietary software company by purchasing their OS. What's the point of buying a proprietary OS to run a bunch of open source software. At some point it seems you have to say "What am I doing, it's time to go Open Source all the way around." While you are correct in saying that they can get lots of open source software for OS X, the point I think you miss is that many of these reverse switches have decided that it doesn’t make sense to subsidize a proprietary software company by purchasing their OS. What’s the point of buying a proprietary OS to run a bunch of open source software. At some point it seems you have to say “What am I doing, it’s time to go Open Source all the way around.”

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