If someone installs your work from disc 3 of some Linux distro, they couldn't care less who you
are. The whole fame thing you are telling me only works amongst geeks. The good looking,
intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
I really wonder how intelligent a girl can be that wouldn't understand something simple like that. I don't know why Clemens assumes that if you wrote some successful commercial software that that would mean any more to her. Unless of course he's just talking about the money you're making. But if he thinks it's worthwhile having a relationship with someone that likes you because of the amount of money you make I can only feel sorry for him!
I don't think you know what a virtual machine is, and no, cmd.exe is not a virtual machine. Also, what do you mean by a "true CLI"? Any shell on Unix/Linux and an optional terminal emulator that they may be running under are all programs like any other. They have no special privileges or powers that any other program wouldn't have. Believe me, I once wrote my own shell on Linux.
"The government is not functioning properly when it passes laws against companies that do nothing to harm consumers. And despite having a rather poor product, many consumers prefer an easy-to- use, expensive MS program to a stable product that takes some effort to learn."
But a company that has a monopoly in any given area and uses this monopoly to lock out potential competitors is hurting consumers!
The "this is supposed to be a democracy" argument is a red herring. The question of whether a law has been broken or not can't and shouldn't ever be decided by a popular vote. What should be democratically decided (and indirectly is to some extent) is which laws should exist in the first place.
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I really wonder how intelligent a girl can be that wouldn't understand something simple like that. I don't know why Clemens assumes that if you wrote some successful commercial software that that would mean any more to her. Unless of course he's just talking about the money you're making. But if he thinks it's worthwhile having a relationship with someone that likes you because of the amount of money you make I can only feel sorry for him!
I don't think you know what a virtual machine is, and no, cmd.exe is not a virtual machine.
Also, what do you mean by a "true CLI"? Any shell on Unix/Linux and an optional terminal emulator that they may be running under are all programs like any other. They have no special privileges or powers that any other program wouldn't have. Believe me, I once wrote my own shell on Linux.
"The government is not functioning properly when it passes laws against companies that do nothing to harm consumers. And despite having a rather poor product, many consumers prefer an easy-to- use, expensive MS program to a stable product that takes some effort to learn."
But a company that has a monopoly in any given area and uses this monopoly to lock out potential competitors is hurting consumers!
The "this is supposed to be a democracy" argument is a red herring. The question of whether a law has been broken or not can't and shouldn't ever be decided by a popular vote. What should be democratically decided (and indirectly is to some extent) is which laws should exist in the first place.