"In my opinion, the law in general is written by lawyers for lawyers, and they have little or no interest in making it as simple and easy to understand as possible, especially for laymen."
Don't you think lawyers think same about software: "the software in general is written by software developers for software developers, and they have little or no interest in making it as simple and easy to understand as possible, especially for layman."
More and more I think law is a form of covering edge cases in archaic language that is well defined in court. One can say that software has a lot of similarities with law.
The real strength of Microsoft is not really anything in particular, but bunch of custom stuff that was done for Windows over last few decades. Example (real world example): There are maybe 20 to 50 users in the department (handling customers) and they use 400 applications - most of the apps run Windows only and even compilers to do them are non-functional any more - yielding nothing less than Windows Lock-in.
Until people don't rewrite everything on the web or open source this will be a huge selling point for MS.
Specs suggest that it is just a cluster under your desk (and a hot one if I can notice).
No fast interconnects - i.e. it's just another custom beowulf...
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Don't you think lawyers think same about software: "the software in general is written by software developers for software developers, and they have little or no interest in making it as simple and easy to understand as possible, especially for layman."
More and more I think law is a form of covering edge cases in archaic language that is well defined in court. One can say that software has a lot of similarities with law.
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The real strength of Microsoft is not really anything in particular, but bunch of custom stuff that was done for Windows over last few decades. Example (real world example): There are maybe 20 to 50 users in the department (handling customers) and they use 400 applications - most of the apps run Windows only and even compilers to do them are non-functional any more - yielding nothing less than Windows Lock-in. Until people don't rewrite everything on the web or open source this will be a huge selling point for MS.
Specs suggest that it is just a cluster under your desk (and a hot one if I can notice). No fast interconnects - i.e. it's just another custom beowulf...
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