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Ursprungligen postat av Bossieman
Enlighten me please
Steve Jobs avslutningstal, till Stanfords avgångsklass 2005:
"Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later."
Däri ligger filosofin bakom. Samma filosofi kan man säkert hitta hos Linuxanvändare, men då riktat mer åt Open Source; Steven S. Raymond säger det väldigt bra i sin essä "The Cathedral and the Bazaar":
"fully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation" (om Katedralmetoden att utveckla mjukvara, OSX t.ex.)
vs.
"a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches." (om bazaarmetoden att utveckla mjukvara, Linux t.ex.)
Det ena utesluter inte det andra. Det finns inget motsatsförhållande mellan OSX och Linux. Att sedan Apple's hårdvara åtnjuter en slags rockstjärnestatus och att Mac-människor är kära i sin hårdvara gör väl inget egentligen. Porscheägare är likadana. För hård- och mjukvaran är ju speciell. Det håller du väl med om?