Slashdot Mirror
Linux in a World Where Windows 3.0 Never Happened
covertbadger writes "Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system to push."
I thought "Engineer" was a term applied to people with degrees in actual engineering not something to be passed around like a gold watch or a fancy pen.
I can only agree with that, and deeply despise all the jerks that talked up the dead speaking rubbish as a reply to the parent post.
One should absolutely never be eligible and let to use the term Engineer in any way if one does not have the proper education in the field. I strongly believe that, although I very well know how many people are in many industries without such degrees, and make billions of cash.
Thing is, experience is not everything. Believe it or not. Knowing the proper techniques, methods, ways of thinking and tools to use is an asset which most good Engineers posess, and which is very very hard work to gather only by experience, and also taking much time.
I don't say one can't gather the knowledge without papers, because it's not true. I just say, nobody, nowhere, never should depreciate properly educated Engineers, with Engineering degrees.
I take such people as morally and psychically underdeveloped grudging pricks.
Repeatedly: I can very well tolerate and highly appreciate gathered engineering knowledge, but the behaviour mentioned: absolutely not.
Also, when people start again and again over the topic: university is no good, experience is... let's just say I'm quite hard to steam up, but this is a good starter.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Either that, or we'd hear folks shrieking, "No, it's 'GNUE/FreeBSD.'"
hawk, who prefers the BSD utilities to the BSD/GNU ones
There are even bits of Linux code here and there in Darwin.
No, there aren't, for licensing reasons. Linux is encumbered by the proprietary Gnu license, which Apple has rejected out of hand. There is no Gnu-licensed code in Darwin.
If Linux were available under an open license, maybe Apple might have been able to benefit from some pieces of it. But as of right now, it's impossible.
Or was it the Nazis who were Stallman-esque in their outlook?