Losing my religion

So it's my second day here at FiveRuns, and I'm sitting here spending some QT with my new MacBook Pro when my iPhone rings. It's my old Fedora 8 laptop calling... again.

"Really, Todd, can we work this out? We really had something special going here. I thought you loved open source?"

Wow. That was below the belt. Of course I love open source. I mean, I worked for Red Hat for 6 years, for Pete's sake. But now that I'm out of a monogamous relationship with OSS, and have integrated a bit of non-open-source into my life, I have to say... I'm pretty happy. Plus, all the cool-kid developers I know are using Macs, and they seem to have come to terms with it.

"Okay, fine, Todd. But can you at least dual-boot me on your Mac?" says Fedora.

No, because then I would be configuring you all day, like I used to do. I need less complexity in my life, Fedora. I want to be told what to do sometimes - you know, as they say in my new world - convention over configuration.

"Okay, will you at least load FireFox?". Absolutely. Done.

Comments

[David W]

I don't know Todd, Safari 3 is getting pretty darn fast ...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/09/the-new-safari-is-amazingly-quick-firefox-watch-out/

If you do find yourself back to the "Mac" browser check out this plugin (and it's free! as in beer):

http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

[Shaun Connolly]

Congratulations Todd. As I've always told you...I'd work with you anywhere...anytime. So FiveRuns is lucky to have you.

Seems my sentiments are shared by others as well:
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9871106-16.html?tag=head

Looks like Obi-Matt-Kenobi would like the chance to steer you away from the dark side and back to the force of open source.

[Nick]

Get yerself on Parallels and run Fedora as a guest OS. That way you can reach out and touch it when you need to, but stick with OSX for everything else :-)