Darwin (Mac OS X Open Source)

I have a handful of Boston clients, so around once a month or so, I take the commuter rail train into Back Bay or South Station. It's usually much more pleasant than fighting traffic and trying to find a place to park. Strangely, the last four or five times I've taken the train, I've happened to sit next to someone using A Mac. That's strange because the percentage of Macs sold would seem to make that statistically unlikely, so I wonder whether demographics would show a higher concentration of Mac use in certain areas. Maybe professionals (who are more apt to be riding the train from the 'burbs) buy more Macs than blue collar folks? Maybe the East and West coasts are Mac friendly and the heartland prefers PC's? Maybe it's even that Red/Blue dichotomy: liberal, artsy types vote Democratic and buy Macs? I don't know.. I only know that I've seen more Macs than I should. I also saw more Macs than I expected to see while walking around LinuxWorld earlier this year. Mac should be a popular platform for the geeky crowd. It's BSD based, and Apple releases source code through Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers also. A.P. Lawrence provides SCO Unix and Linux consulting services http://www.pcunix.com