Gilboa Davara wrote on 2003-06-24: > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:45, Eli Billauer wrote: > > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > >Here's a couple. > > > > > >A. Development tools and workplaces: > > >Low adaptation gives MS power to dictate *bad* (non)standards. MS-Word > > >is not the real problem here; MFC, DirectX, Visual Basic, C#, etc are! > > >As developers we are forced to use non standard closed tools and > > >libraries that can be changed without notice by Microsoft. > > > > > <snip> > > > > Agree, but not really relevant, is it? Developers are a small community, > > which should indeed be exposed to Linux. As an Elec. Eng. I see several > > tools running on Windows which were obviously developed under some UNIX > > system. > > > > Umm... > But that's a chicken and an egg situation. > If developers (specifically) and most other computer geeks are exposed > to MS products and none other, what we've witnessed with Captain (yeah > right) Internet will return ten fold... FUD o'plenty. > In the long run this may kill the Open Source movement. (Let alone > Linux). > Let me doubt the Captian being a programmer :-). I stipulate that the percent of programmers exposed to unix is much higher than the percent of users exposed to them. I'd guess that more than half of all programmers in the world have written something for unix in their life (God bless the universities ;). Granted, this depends on the definition of "developer", I don't mean people after 3-month courses.
Now, do you remember your feeling when you had to use some MS develoment tool (no matter which)? Compare that to the feeling of using any linux development tool. There is precisely one reason for Unix's outstanding success: it's an OS created by hackers, for hackers. And it's almost perfect for them. MS can't compete with that, no matter how hard it tries. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Reading the documentation I felt like a kid in a toy shop." -- Phil Thompson on Python's standard library ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
