[cicloid]

TL;DR Linkbait/Apple is evil because they removed old software.

The article and some of his comments show a very narrow mindset. Thinking on how evil is every corporation, just for being a corporation.

Apple didn't include X11 in order to not tie the releases to certification and QA. In the other hand, many engineers on apple still work on XQuartz. Releasing more fast via the XQuartz

Everyone that really depended on it, has known for the last couple of years. And even beforehand talked about on the last rc's for Mountain Lion was a topic very active discussed with documentation readily available on Apple support site (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293).

And the same narrow-minded people replying with comments "my TASCAM (any hardware really) doesn't work on ML", blame the hardware vendors, they did have many months to do testing and porting of software to the latest release or at least inform your customers. It wasnt like ML was a surprise release and the same will happen with Windows 8.

Years of blaming that could be solved by RTFM.

[justin66]

> TL;DR Linkbait/Apple is evil because they removed old software. The article and some of his comments show a very narrow mindset. Thinking on how evil is every corporation, just for being a corporation.

What is the value in giving a synopsis like this which is completely wrong? The author discusses his feelings a couple of times in the article, impugns Apple's motives not once, doesn't discuss corporatism, and uses the word "bad" precisely once to describe his experience here. He's not hyperbolic enough to use the word "evil," that was you.

Users who depend on both X11 and Apple's RSS support (all ten of them) are going to find this upgrade a bit of a pain. That's not reflective of a narrow mindset, it's reflective of an unusual use case.

[cicloid]

The thing is, nobody is forcing them to upgrade. Except for the RSS thing that was a dubious way to handle it (maybe being more clear on ways to get out a OPML file).

Apple did inform, maybe in a way too opaque. But they did inform it.

On the topic of corporations. I may not interpret it as americans have the "corporations" rhetoric. But the feeling I have as a whole, from the author (Anthony and comments) was very paranoid.

Even calling the backend of OSX has "The Terminal" was very narrow on his scope to explain the problem of this trend and what we loose.

From where I see it, let XQuartz (partially supported/founded by Apple), Google (as seen on iOS6 Youtube.app removal), do it outside the OSX/iOS release schedule, even Apple did it for the iBooks apps and Podcast app.

Having old software stalling progress is just bad for all.