Quothe jim stephens, from writings of Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:12:10PM -0700:
Microsoft wins because of the thing he mentioned
about
development support. They support developers.
Wrong. It appears that the only way that Micro$oft wins anything is
by cheating and bribing, which is why so many politicians in the U.S.
appear to like Micro$oft. No amount of "development support" from
Micro$oft can make up for having products that suck and crash; it's
only because of their putrid products that they need to provide such
support; it's called "marketing gimmickry."
Developers love Linux and support it, but it is a
pain
to develop for Linux compared to microsoft.
Firstly, Linux isn't the only viable UNIX-like, open-source,
alternative to Micro$oft; take FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, for
example. Anyway, any programmer with a reasonable number of
adequately functioning brain cells should need no support other than
source code. Those who whine about having to create software for
Linux or *BSD, and prefer Windoze because of "better support," aren't
real programmers to begin with. I don't use the word "developers,"
because it's a word shared with the nature hating and land-destroying
scum who also call themselves (land) "developers."
The business case he makes about absorbing and
running
microsoft applications is probably right too, but I
doubt that Microsoft will allow it to happen. There
are
too many "no reverse engineer" minefields in the EULA
now to allow it to happen anyway.
If one can't reverse engineer something and modify it as needed,
what's the point in having it to begin with?
As he said, rolling out thousands of units during the
implementation of a massive application needs really
solid
support and tools.
No, it needs programmers with enough adequately functioning
brain cells, but I digress, that's something that biz'droids
aren't usually capable of understanding.
I don't think that the fact that everyone can roll
their own development is necessarily a plus for Linux.
Why not? Oh, you mean because companies like Micro$oft lose money
because of that?
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