<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Indeed. That's where the M$ monopoly<br>
> really pays off. Vendors would much<br>
> rather support just one version of their<br>
> software than three or more - windoz,<br>
> OS X, and Linux, for example. Much<br>
> more profitable to have one near universal<br>
> platform.<br>
<br>
</div>My day job, primarily, is writing special-purpose software that runs<br>
on Windows. It's no wear near as idyllic a setting for ISVs as you<br>
seem to think it is. Your average Windows machine is loaded down with<br>
so many craptastic interfering software written by other ISVs, it's<br>
very difficult to know whether or not problems are from real bugs in<br>
*your* program, or whether something like Google Desktop Search or<br>
some antivirus program went, "Hey, there's a file that was just<br>
created. Let's go peek inside and see what's in there," locked the<br>
file exclusively, and caused a fault in your program when a piece of<br>
internal data wasn't accessible where it should have been.<br>
<br>
I would far, far, far rather write an app that would run on Linux,<br>
packaged for and tested against a "stable" release of Debian, an "LTS"<br>
release of Ubuntu or just about any release of RHEL. It would be a far<br>
saner and more comfortable place to be. With Windows, an ISV sometimes<br>
get a choice as to what environment his software is going to run in<br>
and what other interfering apps are mandated. Throw my software in a<br>
secure sandbox, locked down with limited access to the rest of your<br>
network, and let it do its thing. Don't put me in a place where<br>
<br>
Now, don't get me wrong; I don't hate Windows. I actually have a fair<br>
amount of respect and understanding of it at a low level. What I<br>
loathe is how badly ISV apps are written that they interfere with each<br>
other.<br>
<font color="#888888"> </font></blockquote><div>No, not idyllic - profitable. A vendor</div><div>doesn't have to write and support three</div><div>or more version of it's software. I don't</div><div>envy anyone having to work with windoz. </div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div></div>
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