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He explains that the split in the development community isn’t between those who favour open source and those that don’t, but between purists and non-purists. He states that he wouldn’t be surprised if many open source developers “mellow with age” and become less and less purist when it comes to Free software. Mike Gunderloy expands on this admission with a few interesting remarks. As one of the people who actually can hack my kernel to suit, I find that I don’t miss the ability in the least. Of the programmers, a vast, near-total majority don’t dare in the Land o’ Kernel tread. The vast, near-total majority of computer users aren’t programmers. I still have my free software UNIX shell, my free software programming language, my free software ports system, my free software editor, and I run a bunch of free software Linux virtual machines. I switched to OS X and find it to be an overwhelmingly more enjoyable computing experience. The word-by-word quote of the admission is as follows:

#Toshiba macfuse driver mac os

Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider’s point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people’s attention – most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X. Ivan Krstic’ critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes.