[GRLUG] Linux use

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

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

No, not idyllic - profitable. A vendor
doesn't have to write and support three
or more version of it's software.  I don't
envy anyone having to work with windoz.

   -- Bob

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