New and Noteworthy: Try as I might, I can't wreck a Mac; Mac co-creator interviewed by News.com

Try as I might, I can't wreck a Mac An InfoWorld article explores Tom Yager's switch to the Mac, and his resultant increase in stability: "he new year has me looking back on decisions I made in 2004, and one of the most important was my choice to dump PCs with Windows and Linux and move entirely to the Mac and OS X. I had a lot of Windows to wash out of my brain and a lot to relearn from my Unix days, but everything?s getting done -- and done with Macs. Every day I learn to do things better (meaning simpler), and I like hanging with a platform that makes constant progress. Moving to the Mac is one of my all-time smartest calls. [...] One day I'll tell you what similarly ridiculous things I've done to try to wreck my Macs, but they just won?t wreck. As long as that remains true, I?ll stay switched." More.

Mac co-creator interviewed by News.com In an interview with CNET, Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld is asked whether or not he thinks it was a mistake not to license the Mac OS: "Definitely, but on the other hand it's just one of those things that you'll never know. It's so much in the genetics of Apple to control, to not be an open thing. And if the Mac was open like that, it would have just been so different that you can't ever say what really would have happened." More.

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