Re: CP/M Source
- From: Udo Munk <umunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:30:29 +0100
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:16:41 -0600, Bill Buckels wrote:
"Udo Munk" <umunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The UNIX guys do everything possible to make their stuff interoperable with
Windows
If that were true they would use zip files.
10 years after UNIX was invented and tar files were used, someone comes
with DOS and ZIP and everyone has to adjust to that? I don't think so,
instead open source zip was distributed, can be used on UNIX since ages,
but is not used for technical reasons. Is not done, no one likes to
downgrade to inferior stuff than one is used too for no reason at all.
the other direction looks pretty bad.
No real need to go in the other direction for the majority.
If you look into the effort taken to build solutions like cygwin,
andLinux, X servers for Windows and all this stuff, you might get another
idea. I am talking about computer users, not aunt Mary wanting to look at
baby pictures, forced to use a computer because of digital pictures only.
Counting user numbers the later one is a majority, but this majority won't
play with CP/M anyway.
You need to talk to Microsoft so that they improve it, or get them into
handing out their sources to the public, so that this stuff can be
repaired and made be working.
If I talked to Microsoft like that they may be justified in
curb-stomping me.
Probably.
I really don't see much that needs improving for anyone who does not
want to work in a unix-like OS on a desktop machine which is unimportant
for most of the desktop users on this planet.
But others see this needs, so dozens of X servers for Windows, quite funny
hu?
The general consensus is that the user experience on the Windows Desktop
is higher quality than the Linux Desktop so after Linus decides whether
to use KDE or GNOME, then you can help him repair the Linux user
experience to equal that of Windows.
I see that 'quality' every day, thank you.
If the the low-cost trend with netbook Windows 7 continues and expands
to other desktop environments, Windows will be so low in cost that
horsing around with unix to save the cost of a desktop OS will not be
considered seriously by most individuals or companies.
In Europe a netbook with Linux installed costs €99 less than the same
model installed with Windows. I have worked with totally clueless users
with this desktop. Guess what, they didn't care, they just used the thing.
I can see unix servers being used in some companies, but others may not
have the trained IT people to sustain a unix server farm.
But they have trained IT personal to sustain a Windows server farm? I see
that every day, but I'm very grateful that we have a few admins who can
handle this stuff, so that I won't get bothered. This admins use
cygwin on the Windows servers too, they are able to see the difference.
Bill
Udo Munk
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