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.
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/
Posted by: David W | February 13, 2008 at 04:01 PM
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.
Posted by: Shaun Connolly | February 13, 2008 at 04:18 PM
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 :-)
Posted by: Nick | February 13, 2008 at 11:43 PM