I dunno, you Windows people are thin skinned. I innocently did not know the difference between Windows and DOS as far as embedded applications go and you and Dustin got all steamed up. Dustin took me to task for it and you started talking about woodies. These things always take my by surprise.
Version name fights are laughable to me. Windows is the same old code base with lots of hype for what would be considered point releases in the free software world. You know this is true because each time someone finds a hole in Windows code, it always traces back to as many previous version as are cared about. The Linux kernel is the linux kernel, regardless of distribution and version, GNU is GNU, Iceweasel is Firefox and so on and so forth. Of the thousands of distributions, many have silly names based on Toy Story or animals. It's strange that anyone would care about things like that. Is there something else I said that might have motivated you write so much about nothing? Was it my surprise that anyone would use M$ for embedded applications or that I think it's a poor choice that does not work well? I do not understand people's attachment to a megacorp like M$ or non free software in general. My poor opinion of M$'s technical failures is not emotion driven and it's common. I can share DOS and early Windows application experience with you, and I can share personal experience with newer embedded networking problems if you like. It was never very good and it's gone down hill thanks to product activation and DRM. With free alternatives available for mundane work, I don't know why anyone would chose anything else and GNU has indeed taken the embedded world by storm. How does anyone form a bond with a company that's so hostile to it's customers? It's like watching a battered wife. One minute they are filled with hatred for their abuse, the next they figure they have no choice, get all defensive, say nasty things and continue to invest in their bad relationship. On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > Right.... I mean, if we can't talk about the silliness of Ubuntu and Debian > distro names, then what can we talk about? _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
