On Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow writes:
Mac guru and software developer Mark Pilgrim recently switched to Ubuntu Linux after becoming fed up with proprietary Mac file-formats and the increasing use of DRM technologies in the MacOS. I've been a Mac user since 1984, and have a Mac tattooed on my right bicep. I've probably personally owned 50 Macs, and I've purchased several hundred while working as an IT manager over the years. I'm about to make the same switch, for much the same reasons.
I thought about buying a MacBook Pro anyway, since they're nice computers, and they run Ubuntu, but after pricing them out, I realized that I could get a lot more bang for my buck with a Lenovo ThinkPad T60p. If I'm not going to run the MacOS, why spend extra money for Apple hardware?
Comment: Mark Pilgrim's defection was covered here in Bye, Apple; Hello, Ubuntu and, more generally, in Schofield's First Law revisited -- and why Mark Pilgrim finally gave up on Apple.
Doctorow takes the practical line on data formats and mentions that he's getting more hardware for his money. He doesn't mention the fact that he's a noted campaigner for freedom and free software. I've always found it more than a bit ridiculous when open source advocates tote around proprietary hardware loaded with proprietary closed source software. It's a bit like having an anti-smoking campaigner who always has a cigarette in his mouth but claims: "It's OK, it's not lit!"
