Damn Moderators
The thrice-accursed Slashdot moderators modded down an honest comment as a troll. In answer to the question posed (what is Mac OS X?) I commented:
It’s proprietary software.
That’s my major beef with it: I don’t have the freedom to play with it as I’d like.
There are also minor problems: brain-dead BSD tools rather than nice GNU tools (compare the arguments of
touch -don a GNU/Linux system vs. a BSD system); various oddnesses in setup; old Apache (this may be fixed); somewhat difficult postfix setup (ditto) &c. But the major issue is that Mac OS X is proprietary software. I’m am American—I’m quite attached to freedom.
It’s discouraging to know that there are such bigots around in the world still. Nothing I wrote was false: Mac OS X is proprietary, and that is my major problem with it; it also uses the BSD tools, which are demonstrably inferior to the GNU equivalents; it is oddly-arranged; it does (or did) use an old and inferior version of Apache; it is (or was) very painful to get postfix running on it. But the thickwits didn’t care for any of that: they down-moderated because they disliked the truth.
