Gilboa Davara wrote:
But the percentage is getting lower and lower.
My guess it that in general close to 80% of the programmers getting out
to the workforce today, will 'do' java/C#/VB most of their professional
life... and with design (YUCK!) tools getting better and better, most
developers are
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 15:45, Eli Billauer wrote:
You have a point there. This could be solved with Internet Explorer
under wine, though, as Shachar demonstrated partially at Haifux
yesterday. Yes, I would be happier too if it was all Mozilla, but if the
Explorer was available for Linux (ran
Since the Linux for masses issue is up again, here's my little food for
thought:
What's wrong with the situation as it is?
What's wrong with Linux not being in every home? Why do we care if our
grandmother pays for her operating system?
There are, of course, a few things that I would like to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:40:49PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote:
Keep in mind: If Linux, or to be more precise, the main distros of
Linux, will be aimed for everyone, they will also be adapted to that
level. Which means that we'll all find a paperclip helper in Openoffice
very soon.
amor ?
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
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
Gilboa Davara wrote on 2003-06-24:
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:40, Eli Billauer wrote:
Since the Linux for masses issue is up again, here's my little food for
thought:
What's wrong with the situation as it is?
What's wrong with Linux not being in every home? Why do we care if our
Eli Billauer wrote on 2003-06-24:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
B. Non standard shared Web-sites:
At least half of the sites in Israel don't work right under Mozilla.
(ynet, walla, etc) Why? cause they are using non-standard IE-only
extensions. Christ, even the Linux forum in ynet cannot be read
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
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Eli Billauer wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
B. Non standard shared Web-sites:
At least half of the sites in Israel don't work right under Mozilla.
(ynet, walla, etc) Why? cause they are using non-standard IE-only
extensions. Christ, even the Linux forum in ynet cannot be
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:43, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote on 2003-06-24:
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:40, Eli Billauer wrote:
Since the Linux for masses issue is up again, here's my little food for
thought:
What's wrong with the situation as it is?
What's wrong
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
Quoting Eli Billauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Keep in mind: If Linux, or to be more precise, the main distros of
Linux, will be aimed for everyone, they will also be adapted to that
level. Which means that we'll all find a paperclip helper in Openoffice
very soon.
Bt... Faulty thinking here.
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
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:55, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
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.
Gilboa Davara wrote on 2003-06-24:
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:55, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
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
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:43, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote on 2003-06-24:
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:55, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
Let me doubt the Captian being a programmer :-). I stipulate that the
percent of programmers exposed to unix is much higher than the percent
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Eli Billauer wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
B. Non standard shared Web-sites:
At least half of the sites in Israel don't work right under Mozilla.
(ynet, walla, etc) Why? cause they are using non-standard IE-only
extensions. Christ, even the Linux forum in ynet cannot be
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