Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:28:44 05/21/02
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On May 20, 2002 at 16:30:39, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 20, 2002 at 12:54:40, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On May 19, 2002 at 23:42:14, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>The result is that finally I'm going to switch to XP. It is waiting for me on >>>the other partition of my hard disk (that so far I never boot). :( >> >>Too bad you're bound to a platform with lots of people behind it, since that's >>how you earn your money. Otherwise I could tell you some alternatives. ;) >> >>Sargon > > > >The problem is not the number of customers using the system. > >Actually my developpement system is DOS with the free GCC compiler. > >I compile the Windows version when I need to publish an update, that's all. I >could very well use Linux as my developpement system (I would just keep the GCC >compiler). > >But I want a system that: >1) has a big enough community >2) I can safely advice to friends and family > > >Point number 1 is almost OK with Linux. For point number 2, Linux is clearly a >bad choice (so far). > >Actually what the world needs is a low priced Windows clone. It's not very >important if the OS core is Linux or NT (they look quite similar to me). Note even close. NT is in every aspect better than linux except for 2 a) it is free b) source code is available however a & b do not count for 99.9% of the computer users on this planet. Saying linux has a market share of 5% of the computer users is complete nonsense. It's more like 0.05%. >The KDE project is probably on the right track, if they manage to get the >fanatics out of the project. > Christophe
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