[Mageia-discuss] Why Mageia isn't a "Lion Friendly" distribution?

Mon Dec 5 22:28:52 CET 2011

Em 05-12-2011 19:08, nicolas vigier escreveu:
+> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Luiz Alberto Saba wrote:
+>
+>> Em 05-12-2011 16:15, Maarten Vanraes escreveu:
+>>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 14:57:06 schreef Luiz Alberto Saba:
+>>> [..]
+>>>> Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"?
+>>>> I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost
+>>>> everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...))
+>>>> Comments?
+>>>>
+>>>> Luiz Alberto Saba
+>>> listen, i don't have any apple stuff either, but i think alot of these replies
+>>> are still a bit disrespectful, ok, maybe the OP shouldn't assume this, but
+>>> that particular comment isn't really the gist of what he's saying...
+>> I don't think in terms of respectful or not.
+>> What i fear is that this position is isolationist.
+>> What good to us is to ignore the reality?
+>> Just take a look at the sales numbers.
+>> Apple users (any device) are much greater (in numbers) than the sum of the
+>> users of ALL linux distributions.
+> Actually we could say that Linux users (any device) are much greater
+> (in numbers) than the sum of the users of ALL apple devices. The most
+> used phone operating system is by far Android, not iOS.
+I forgot abot that... ;-)
+>
+> But we don't care about sales numbers, supposed number of users, etc ...
+> Mageia is a community distribution, so support for interoperability with
+> other OSs/devices only depends whether someone is willing to spend some
+> time working on it. Statements about everybody having apple devices
+> or sales number are useless and only encourage trolling ...
+Not my intention. English is not my native language and I'm not so 
+fluent to express my point of view in an adequate manner. So, sometimes, 
+some shortcuts lead to unwanted results. Sorry.
+>
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