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Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux
Onymous Hero writes "The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. An article from eWeek looks at why Linux has been so successful where Unix failed." From the article: "While the Unix companies were busy ripping each other to shreds, Microsoft was smiling all the way to the bank. Because the Unix businesses couldn't settle on software development standards, ISVs (independent software vendors) had to write not a single application to get the whole Unix market, they had to write up to a half-dozen different versions. Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems? "
Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?
Well let me think... I'll write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, after they pry my cold dead fingers off my smoking gun.
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
That is still only two, he counted SCO as still being "in the UNIX business".
haha I know this is off topic, but...
When clicking on the story to ready it, there was a sun ad saying "With their evil systems, it's no wonder their name rhymes with hell"
haha Classy.
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
LSB may be fundamentally broken, but just wait for LSC, which will almost work. And then, emerging from the smoking ashes of LSC, after much pain and labor, we'll have LSD. And LSD is going to be faaaaaar out.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Would you rather have 1 tyrant (Bill Gates) 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants (open sourcers) 1 mile away?
Cogito Ergo Sum
Are you suggesting that there's a better way than writing everything for the curses library?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Hey, SCO is still in the Unix business!
...the way a tapeworm is in a dog...
'Sensible' is a curse word.
The O/S vendors look like the back of my amp: MIC, AUX, LIN
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Don't think so. It's been in the kernel since 2.6.12.Now, whether userland apps take advantage of it or not is a different story.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1