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Well good for him. But we have to let go of this notion that for GNU/Linux to win, Apple has to lose. I'm paraphrasing but can't shake that feeling when I hear those claps in the video. When are we ever going to grow up?

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I'd summarize it more as him saying he's choosing to opt out of Apple's direction because he doesn't like it. Was there something beyond that...calling for Apple's demise?

I'm referring to the audience laughing and then clapping when he mentions he's depressed about Apple.

What’s wrong with other people agreeing? Maybe they like Linux too. Also, why does it matter to you if people have a different opinion?

To answer your questions, nothing and it doesn't.

The laughter and clapping just reads as puerile to me.

On a tangent I'm very fond on GNU/Linux, I run a Debian homelab plus some Pi 4s. I also use Macs since 2006.

I was in the audience and I certainly didn’t clap. It wasn’t the whole crowd (tho it was most of it, as one would expect at a major Linux community conference), but I rolled my eyes by the crowd reaction too — tho I don’t blame/judge/fault people for their reaction. I’ve always been the Mac user at the Linux conference (and I like Linux very much, but I like it on the server or an RPi) and you know going in it’s like wearing Yankees hat to a bar full of Red Sox fans.

I don't read it like that. I interpret it as people just really liking Linux.

Note: this was at a linux conference.

Hehe, yeah. I saw Stallman in Gothenburg 2007 and even bought his book Free Software, Free Society. It was memorable, getting flashbacks now from him eating toe jam/callous skin from his foot.

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