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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302275305 by reborg on Friday 9th of January 2009 06:00:03 PM

01-09-2009

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I voted no. But in order to make sense of my vote I should explain.

I personally don't like the Mac OS interface, and I am not a big fan of many of the implementation of many of the administrative tools. Yes, I could install tools to do things those things way I want but as someone who works mostly from the command line it makes more sense for me to use something which behaves in a more traditional way such Solaris, GNU/Linux or BSD. Also I don't use any of the software for which Macs are the ideal platform.

Having said that, from a business perspective if there was a truly legitimate (not ambiguous) way to do this and people reporting to me wanted to use OS X and it would run on the standard hardware provided to them I wouldn't have a problem approving it on the condition that they could perform all of their work without needing to use another paid-license OS.

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GETTEXTIZE(1)								GNU							     GETTEXTIZE(1)

NAME

       gettextize - install or upgrade gettext infrastructure

SYNOPSIS

       gettextize [OPTION]... [package-dir]

DESCRIPTION

       Prepares a source package to use gettext.

OPTIONS

       --help print this help and exit

       --version
	      print version information and exit

       -f, --force
	      force writing of new files even if old exist

       --intl install libintl in a subdirectory (deprecated)

       --po-dir=DIR
	      specify directory with PO files

       --no-changelog
	      don't update or create ChangeLog files

       --symlink
	      make symbolic links instead of copying files

       -n, --dry-run
	      print modifications but don't perform them

AUTHOR

       Written by Ulrich Drepper

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright   (C)	 1995-1998,   2000-2010   Free	 Software   Foundation,   Inc.	  License   GPLv3+:   GNU   GPL   version   3	or   later
       <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for gettextize is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and gettextize programs  are  properly  installed	at
       your site, the command

	      info gettextize

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU gettext-tools 0.18.2					    March 2013							     GETTEXTIZE(1)