[Webteam] Download box, order, adding Linux

[David Mitchell]

The site is about Squeak, not about OS.

I've been running Macs since 1988 and have a fine collection in my
basement. I still have a working OS X box and an OS 9 laptop box that
my daughter uses. My sons both run Ubuntu daily. My wife runs Windows.
I mostly use my laptop from work running Windows.

I run Squeak on all of them. Often the same image (the old Mac laptop
is the exception).

Now if you wanted a reason to favor Mac, Squeak's history traces
through Apple Smalltalk (and some of the GUI still has some Mac-isms
that go back to something like System 6 or earlier (before we started
calling it OS anything).

The reason to list Windows first is probably because that is the most
frequently downloaded.

The pro Mac and anti-Windows stuff makes no sense to me at all. Most
companies are incredibly closed when they have the dominant position
(Apple iTunes) and more open when they aren't (IBM). Most are quite
schizophrenic in this regard with some groups within the company being
more open and others more closed. If you want to know which is which,
check their market position. Even Microsoft has been open-sourcing
some components; RedHat has tried to close up parts of their
Enterprise offering.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Michael van der Gulik
<mikevdg at gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> Janko Mivšek wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm just implementing a download box component for a squeaksite demo and
>> wondering if:
>>
>> - Linux should be added
>> - order changed: Linux, Mac, Windows, Others
>>
>> Now it is Windows, Mac and Others (see top left box on every page).
>>
>> I think adding Linux is a must, because Linux is prime example of Open
>> Source movement, part of it we are too.
>>
>> That's also a reason that Windows as the complete antitesis of OS movement
>> is put down from the first place. Well, there are still many Windows users
>> coming as newcomers, but I think there are more and more Mac users right
>> now, so ...
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Being a pragmatist, I think it would be better to get a survey from the rest
> of the community or get download statistics and list them in order of
> popularity.
>
> I don't really care what the hardware or OS is; Squeak is it's own
> environment that turns everything below it into a replaceable commodity.
>
> Gulik.
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