> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Raj Shekhar > Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 1:13 PM > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Re: Re: Revolution OS: Movie about open > source movement > > > D. Venkatasubramanian wrote: > > > > > BTW, if you say Linux is good, then how do you define > "Good", good is > > a qualitative term, and it has to be relative to something that is > > bad. So, how do you call something "Good" unless you don't > discuss the > > "Bad" constructively? Think about it ... >
-- snip > > Customizing this definition for our needs of defining "good" > software, > the characteristics of good software are - > consistency, stability, economy in user interface, fail in a graceful > manner, not waste CPU cycles. I am sure you will be able to add more. > > So yes, we can discuss "good" without discussing the "bad". > My thinking will never be confined to believing that what "I" do is the best and all others things are bad.In many a discussions, on the main GCC list, I have seen numerous people say that MSVC or ICC does this or this better than GCC and more often than not, people on the list constructively try to understand what is it that MSVC does better. They don't just start slamming Microsoft. That is the strength of GNU and open source, being able to inculcate what is good in other platforms. BTW, there are people from SCO too, some of them highly respected in the GCC community. I love Linux, I have worked on it for 2 years and have contributed directly to it, on GCC / GDB, I was GDB Maintainer. But there are certain things which Windows does better, and Mac OS X does even better or Solaris. Though comparatively, Linux does a whole lot of things much better than any of these. It has been a privilege to work on all of these platforms for me and each has in some way taught me a lot. Windows, in terms of its consistency in its UI, Mac OS X in its absolutely, ravishing UI, Linux on its very good stability and Solaris, well it's a really high class server platform, absolutely the best. Linux is evolving and doing so beautifully, even now, it really can take on the best in the world. But no matter how good Linux is, there's always something that it can do better. And that betterment cannot come by slamming Microsoft or SCO. I remember a huge discussion on removing support for SCO on the GCC list, maybe you should read the discussion. If I remember correctly, it was decided not to remove support and had left the protesting to FSF. It's the strength of GNU to embrace even hostile platforms that it goes forward. ILUG-D is not a political organisation, our aims should be to promote Linux, not to be blindly slamming Windows, its not our job, read "How to Win ..." by Carnegie, and maybe you will understand that, if you want a user to embrace Linux, you have to make him want to do it. The more you slam Windows, the more he buys into it. Long mail, I guess its time for me to shut up for some time. :-) > Regards > -- > / \__ > ( @\___ Raj Shekhar My best regards, Venky _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
