Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, 2003 @12:21AM from the it's-a-long-long-way dept.

giampy writes "Joel Spolsky writes a review-like article on the last book of Eric S. Raymond (The Art of Unix Programming). His views on the cultural differences among Windows and Unix programmers are well explained. Overall, an interesting read." Also on the topic of Windows, badriram writes "Microsoft is reorganizing the windows team, it seems the are separating the OS core development. Seems like things heading in the right direction in creating a more secure OS, and making it more business oriented. Read the article here."

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Re:windows users are the problem... by Peganthyrus · 2003-12-16 00:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

Well... why do you need a password to run something on your own computer?

It's sitting right there in your home office. Behind at least one locked door. Maybe even a couple.

I mean, I have my machine set up to automatically log me in; I turn it on and there it is, ready to go. There's me, my room-mate, and nobody else. I trust my room-mate to stay off my machine; she trusts me to stay off of hers.

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