On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 Woodhouse Gregory J. wrote:
> I agree with you that we need to move away from the de facto coupling
> between open source and Linux? There are other platforms (such as
FreeBSD)
> out there, and, besides, the platform upon which a system runs seems to
be a
> separate issue from whether it is open source or not. It seems to me that
we
> may well want to port whatever product we develop to Linux, FreeBSD,
> commercial version of UNIX, VMS, Windows NT, etc.? Certainly Perl has
been
> ported to all of these platforms, though I believe Microsoft actually
> commissioned the Activestate port of Perl to Windows.
Microsoft *did* commission the port of Perl to Windows, but with
proprietary extentions. What's next, Visual Perl? Ugh.
As for Linux and *BSD:
They are, in many ways, functionally equivalent, especially with the
Berkeley suite of utilities. Some people were working on binary
compatibility between the two, but I don't know what became of it.
Developing open source applications for Windows NT is pointless. The people
you are trying to "market" this to are not the type of people who run NT
boxes, and even if they were, what would be the point? Open source on a
closed source operating system still doesn't seem too compatible with the
ideals that we all seem to be operating under.
Let the clients be Mac or Windows or BeOS or whatever, but let the server
be *NIX/*BSD and we'll all be better off for it.
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jeff b
system administrator
university communications
university of connecticut
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