This is a very real possibility, since the OS will undoubtedly be written by MS.
"Dude, I gotta reboot our Windoze PAINT!" "Huh?" "Our PAINT has gone BSOD! I always thought that was a figurative expression!" "You gotta hop out and hit the RESET button!" "What?!" "The internal RESET only comes in the Pro edition!"... "OK. Why's it taking so long to reboot?" "It's written in C#. I never did understand why an OS to turn electrical current on and off needs 128 MB of RAM."
Ouch. I find I must agree with you, even as I nurse my wounded pride.
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GNU seems best known for applications/utilities like gnupg, gawk, and GNU sed. Since GNU has played such a large (albeit discreet) role in the development of the various GNU/Linux distributions out there, why is the role of GNU in that process so little understood, so misunderstood, and so little recognized? (I get many blank stares when I call it GNU/Linux, even from some very technical folks.)
As an IT security specialist, poor software quality - both in design and implementation - is my greatest headache (and my surest job security). How aware are consumers and the media of this problem, do you think the critical mass of demand for quality software ever coalesce, and what effect will/would this have on the industry?
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This is a very real possibility, since the OS will undoubtedly be written by MS.
...
"Dude, I gotta reboot our Windoze PAINT!"
"Huh?"
"Our PAINT has gone BSOD! I always thought that was a figurative expression!"
"You gotta hop out and hit the RESET button!"
"What?!"
"The internal RESET only comes in the Pro edition!"
"OK. Why's it taking so long to reboot?"
"It's written in C#. I never did understand why an OS to turn electrical current on and off needs 128 MB of RAM."
Ouch. I find I must agree with you, even as I nurse my wounded pride.
GNU seems best known for applications/utilities like gnupg, gawk, and GNU sed. Since GNU has played such a large (albeit discreet) role in the development of the various GNU/Linux distributions out there, why is the role of GNU in that process so little understood, so misunderstood, and so little recognized? (I get many blank stares when I call it GNU/Linux, even from some very technical folks.)
As an IT security specialist, poor software quality - both in design and implementation - is my greatest headache (and my surest job security). How aware are consumers and the media of this problem, do you think the critical mass of demand for quality software ever coalesce, and what effect will/would this have on the industry?