Andy Davies wrote: > Ed said "I can't recommend strongly enough that you > get away from this system of churning development tools to force > everyone to buy the latest and greatest or get left behind as some > dinosaur." > > Unfortunately that's exactly how I feel about 'nix distro's - OK they're > [mostly] free but there's just too many too often.
There's two pieces to this - the 'too many', and the 'too often'. Ed addressed the 'too many'. I'd like to add that the 'too many' does seem 'insurmountable' to a lot of folks, but what you want to do is get your head around the idea that it's YOUR CHOICE. You want a mainstream distro to roll out to tens of thousands of desktops? You have a choice. You want a server? You have a choice. You want something to put on an embedded controller? You have a choice. You want something to run as a firewall on a box from 1997? You have a choice. What window manager? What office package? What multi-media player? What drawing package? What printing manager? You have a choice. Stop me if you've heard this before..... The 'too often' isn't to entice you into opening your pocketbook, or as MSFT would do it, to FORCE you into doing it. I was at some mucketity muck meeting at MSFT a number of years ago where someone was demoing The Next Big Thing... and when someone asked about in item in the version that had JUST BEEN RELEASED THAT WEEK, the speaker dismissed the question with the attitude, "Oh, THAT version is old news. What you REALLY want is THE NEW ONE coming out soon!" MSFT has always held developers in disdain, a group of captive whores whose sole purpose was to push the OS. They've ALWAYS ignored the fact that we need to build apps for customers NOW. We don't spend our lives learning new features because they give us big ol' orgasms. No, we'd like to spend our time being BILLABLE. OH, and don't get me started on the MSFT Patch Tuesday. Look up how many times MSFT has had to issue patches that fixed bugs with patches that were just released.... and how many times they've had to issue patches that fixed the problems with the patches that were supposed to fix the original patches - which were supposed to fix the original OS....) Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
