On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 07:54:12PM -0500, Bob Munck wrote:
> >(a) they don't have the resources
>
> Pardon me? MS has some 11,000 people in R&D, annual profits of
> $4,500,000,000. How big is Linux, maybe 5,000 function points?
The Linux development community already numbers in the hundreds
of thousands.
> MS could start from scratch and build a completely new OS of the
> same level of functionality in six months with a tenth of those
> resources.
Their track record indicates otherwise.
> > and (b) NT's design is fundamentally unsound.
>
> In what way? [...]
It's not inherently portable. It scales badly. It is basically
a single-user system with added baggage to attempt to make it multi-user.
It fails to incorporate basic Internet protocols in a standards-compliant
fashion (where it incorporates them at all). It's incredibly insecure.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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