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From: Sean Evans <sevans@k2nesoft.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 01:33:18 -0400
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klaus@xmission.com@editme.first wrote:
>
> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote:
> > NT is basically a piece of shit, as is windows 95... but microsoft has
> > the marketing power and user base to impose it on the rest of the world
> > and most people do not know any better.
>
> <Schnip>
>
> > What is so frightening about this whole thing is that most people
> > *actually* *believe* the crap microsoft is spewing out. Everything
> > microsoft puts out is second-rate and second-class, but most people
> > seem to believe that it's first-rate and first-class because it's
> > the only thing they are exposed to.
>
> Well.. I started programming for Un*x systems in 1981. I've earned my
> living writing software for SunOS, RT-11, RSX11M+, VMS, DOS, VxWorks,
> Irix, Ultrix, Solaris, BSD4.{1,2,3}, WinNT3.5 and 4.0, etc etc.. Your
> opinion gave me the best laugh I've had in a long time. Thanks. Each
> OS has strengths and weaknesses, and discarding any one of them as a
> "piece of shit" when you've obviously never studied the internals
> merely limits your ability... and earning potential.
>
> pot, kettle, black
>
> Following this thread amazes me to no end. Is this what the CS
> departments of today are turning out? If people 20 years ago had had
> this attitude, we'd all still be writing COBOL on punch cards. (GUI's
> just hide the stuff that's really important, as does OOP). NT has some
> underlying advantages over most Un*x implementations, multi-threading
> being one of them. Its filesystem sucks. So what. Un*x has its
> deficiencies. And its advantages. Go with the flow. Use what's best
> for your market. Get rich. Retire. Which part don't you understand?
>
> It's not a religion, its just a steenking computer. Well.. back to
> alt.mech.screwdrivers where there's a religious argument over which is
> better, flathead or phillips head. They're all ignoring what type of
> screw they have. And then there's those Torx(tm) guys... where the
> hell did they come from?
>
> -klaus
>
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Finally...someone who gets it.