Cristian Burneci wrote:
>The popularity of Windows comes almost entirely from the fact that
different
>applications look and act the almost the same
(snip)
>But this leads to
>uniformity and monotony and that's probably why the people on this list are
>not comfortable with windoze.
I can't speak for anyone else but I'm not comfortable with Windows because
it's:
a. slow
b. crashes
c. eats memory (I have 256MB RAM and run out of it after only copying a few
thousand files)
That most programs look the same is what makes Windows atleast usable.
There is nothing like OLE (cut'n'paste) in Linux for instance between any
choosen program. I regulary crash Netscape trying to use cut'n'paste (this
also happens on Solaris so I guess Netscape really screwed up with their
UNIX clones ports).
>This is if fact the communism, banned from the political
>world, but seeking refuge in the world of computers .
Ok, I know you live in Romania. However I would like to point out that
Romania has never been a communistic country. It was a country with only
one party (aka. dictatorship). That party called themselves the
communistparty since they wanted to achieve a socialdemocratic country.
there are two ways to get there, communism (revolution) or by normal
elections, and so far no country has been able to reach it. What they
called themselves and the country according to some are beside the point,
for instance Iraq claims to be a democracy ;-)
Windows would be a sort of dictatorship, like Romania was.
>Linux, being developed by thousands of programmers from different corners of
>the world, does not impose any particular standards of its own.
If we would like a political resemblence here, anarchy would probably fit
for Linux. And this mixed up with liberal ideas, socialdemocracy in a small
sense and some of the users seems to have listened a bit to much from
Hitler. But that last be said of Microsoft and their users as well: "Ein
computer, ein OS, ein F�hrer!" ;-)
Hmm... come to think about it all I lack is a F�hrer and I would fit into
that as well.
//Bernie
