"Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Manuel> "Erik Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> >> [...] The lab is *sponsored* by Microsoft, but definitively not *at*
> >> Microsoft. I doubt there are any Linux boxes at Microsoft :-)
>
> Manuel> [...] There have also been reports of Linux boxes in the main
> Manuel> company, but the validity of these reports is of course not
>
> But easy to believe... I mean, wouldn't you take a good look at your
> competition?
Having spent five years doing Windows and Win32 hacking, and 10+ years
doing Unix hacking before that, I can assure you there is little evidence
that Microsoft are interested in learning anything whatsoever from Linux
or any other Unix work-alike. Rather than re-iterate the argument, I'll
simply point interested readers towards the excellent article
"Working with Win32: the good, the bad and the ugly"
by David G. Korn
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1997-11/win32.html
which mostly reinforces the quote:
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent
it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer
Now that I've gotten MY little barb in, can we PLEASE end this tangent on
OS wars, and return to our regularly scheduled language wars? :-)
Thanks,
-Antony
(haskell list lurker)
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Antony Courtney
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony
