Comments on: On Open Formats and Closed Minds: A Love Story http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/06/on-open-formats-and-closed-minds-a-love-story.html I've been observing personal computing behavior for a long time, and now I have some things to say. Here are my two cents about computing, music, software, and related topics. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Steve White http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/06/on-open-formats-and-closed-minds-a-love-story.html#comment-1244 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:31:05 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/06/on-open-formats-and-closed-minds-a-love-story.html#comment-1244 I know this is an old post, but I had to say it. The most amusing thing about this whole debate is that it's entirely specious. Nearly every open-source, open-format application available for linux can be ported fairly easily to linux; almost all of them compile out of the box with fink, opendarwin, or similar. Openoffice.org is available for OSX. mutt will work, if you're *really* in love with mbox. Crazy; like you said, emotional, not intellectual, decision.  I know this is an old post, but I had to say it.

The most amusing thing about this whole debate is that it’s entirely specious. Nearly every open-source, open-format application available for linux can be ported fairly easily to linux; almost all of them compile out of the box with fink, opendarwin, or similar. Openoffice.org is available for OSX. mutt will work, if you’re *really* in love with mbox. Crazy; like you said, emotional, not intellectual, decision. 

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