Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:36:54 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 22:12:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On October 27, 2001 at 16:56:26, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>Yes, I know someone would point out Linux, and I do not disagree with you. >>However it is not an alternative for me. >>I write programs to be sold to as many customers as possible. When I look at >>the >>current state of the market, it scares me. > >Welcome to the real world, Christophe. You have to sell what your customers >want. Do you think any other business is different? > >>This has nothing to do with the quality of the OS. I consider Linux (and Unix >>in >>general) as THE reference OS of all times. After all, Unix and its flavors >>have >>successfully been used since more than 30 years on many different platforms. >>What other OS can beat that? > >NT (Win2k, WinXP, etc.) is roughly VMS, which has about as much history as UNIX >does. > Not quite. VMS was the Vax operating system. Unix pre-dates that by 10 years or so... VMS was _way_ inferior to unix also. I ran a VMS shop at USM for many years. I much preferred my PDP 11/44 with unix (from Ken Thompson) to the vax 11/780 even though the vax was way faster hardware. >>I am forced to use an operating system which is 90% driven by commercial >>considerations: forcing people to buy more powerful computers to do the same >>thing as they did before (bloated OS), directing people to use selected >>commercial services instead of cheaper or even free alternatives (the ".NET" >>propaganda, Windows Media Player hold up, forcing people to download selected >>partners updates and services), forcing people to pay regularly to renew their >>software license (which allow to get money without actually improving the >>software), and so on... >> >>But as you only use Linux, you probably do not have any idea of what I am >>talking about. Lucky you... :) > >This is a load of crap and you know it, Christophe. With WinXP, MS has >_decreased_ the amount of RAM you need to use it and _increased_ speed (over >Win2k). Funny to think of it as bloated. As for your ".NET propaganda," that's >all it is now, propaganda. ".NET" doesn't even exist yet. Why are you so bitter >about some press releases and editorials in trade rags? Same for the >subscription billing. As for WMP, it's not like the inclusion of this program >makes it any harder for you to install & use whatever media playing software you >want. If you don't like WMP that much, delete it. Life goes on. > >-Tom
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