On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Bob Miller wrote:
Larry Price wrote:true, true, probably, and definitely
it looks as though MS is at least making some effort in the direction of providing a reasonably sane programming environment.
any one on this list tried this puppy out yet?
C'mon, Larry. You know better than that.
If uSoft wants to tempt us into getting locked into their code, then they ought to at least offer something we can't already get with Cygwin. Cygwin has a better license, a better-tested code base, a better bug fixing process, and a more trustworthy developer organization.
I think it is interesting that they are attempting to offer what they think developers want even
though it's clear that they don't understand why it's wanted and they definitely misunderstand just exactly what IS wanted by the audience they are targeting.
in this case the dogmatism is actually pragmatism with a wider scope,I know, that's dogmatic, not pragmatic. But how many chances are you going to give a repeat offender?
without access to the source and freedom to bend it to the task at hand
we eventually wind up with a vendor lock-in monoculture, and would be incapable of doing
things we need to do because we would be unable to correct even minor misconceptions about the nature of what we are doing.
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