On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:57:14PM -0400, David Wagner wrote: > Very well spoken Steve. You have hit the nail on the head and then some. I > have often felt like I am forced into the outer fringes of the geek club > because of my love and interest of programming in Windows. I think that > there is a vast generalization among hardcore Linux users that anyone who > prefers Windows for any reason is somehow dumb or at the very least > underneath them.
For my part it's not that I think windows is inferior to POSIX-like platforms. It's that Microsoft has done a lot of things as a company that really disgust me and it's very hard to get over that. I also appreciate that a Linux-based, open system gives what seems to me to be a much more flexible environment and one that I have much more control over. Even if Windows is ultimately a superior platform (whatever that means) it's going to be a very hard sell to me. Because of Microsoft's corporate behavior regarding the software they sell I'm loth to adopt the technologies they create, but that's just me. I was once a regular Windows user until one day at a new job I was sat down in front of an old surplused xterminal and an old monitor that had seen better days that ran off a RedHat server. It was like coming out into a larger world, rather than just being constrained inside of the one Microsoft wanted to define for me, because no one single entity owns or controls the whole of the amalgamated software for any Linux/BSD (in my case RedHat 7.3) software distribution bazaar. It's like a collection of markets the whole world over that operate on the principle of free trade. So, that's why I have aversions to Mircosoft's software and also why I prefer open source software. Justin _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
