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| Newer page: | version 42 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:51:25 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 40 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:02:15 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | Revert |
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
* [KDE] vs [GNOME]
* ReplyToMunging vs NoReplyToMunging
* [Linux] vs [Windows]
* [GPL] vs [BSD] license
-* AppleMacintosh vs
[PC
]s (as in MicrosoftCompatible) --
[Microsoft-Compatible wins|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656
]
+* [Apple
] vs
[PC
]
* RedHat vs DebianLinux vs YourLinuxDistributionOfChoice
* [make(1)] vs [Ant]
* [sh(1)] vs [csh(1)] vs [bash(1)]
* [C] vs [C++] vs [Java] vs [Perl] vs [Python] vs [Ruby] vs… nah, [PHP] doesn’t really count
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@
These are not mutually exclusive. Even the most long-running [vi|Vim] vs [Emacs] FlameWar will be broken off temporarily so its participants can engage in a [Linux] vs [Windows] FlameWar (on the side of [Linux], of course).
Time does not settle all ReligiousWar~s. Some withstand age. The ~BetaMax vs VHS war is still going strong, despite not only ~BetaMax having effectively lost in the market (even though it was clearly superior), but both technologies being displaced by optical storage anyway. Others do fizzle out, such as the structured programming vs GoTo war, or the war over implementing systems in assembly language vs highlevel ProgrammingLanguage~s.
+
+Some wars are so broadly and vaguely defined that different participants have different ideas about what the war is really about. Some people consider the [Apple] vs [PC] war to be about the AppleMacintosh vs MicrosoftCompatible hardware architectures (ignoring the fact that "Mac" has meant at least two entirely unalike hardware architectures during the brand's existence), so some of them would consider [the war over|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656]. OTOH the majority of participants in this war are users with no expertise in programming or hardware architectures, who argue about an ill-defined derivative of user experience and/or interface/appliance design ethos – as much as they ever have.
