On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Tracy Reed wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:10:36PM -0400, Jesse Trucks spake thusly: >> I find it rather sad and quite unprofessional to make these types of >> negative and prejudicial statements about a platform. > > Modular software (not having your calendar unseparable from your > email), least priv and other security practices, etc. are all to be > expected from a platform. And they don't provide these things. I would > think it more unprofessional to sugar coat the inadequacies of the > platform so as not to appear overly harsh. That kind of thing only > hurts clients/customers/users.
I'm as much a unix bigot as the next guy, and I've bashed Microsoft and their products plenty in my lifetime, but I understand and agree with Jesse's point, to a degree. I think ad hominem attacks against Microsoft are petty and base, and we should strive for better (I'm not accusing the above of that -- just making a general statement). As professionals, surely we can come up with cogent, technical objections to the platform with well-thought-out criticisms and suggestions for what they could have done to make it better. I think if anything, it at least says more about us when we do that. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
