--- Alberto Monteiro:
> David Brin wrote:
> >> >> I think YU miss the point. As I said, you can
> get> >> BASIC on Linux> >
> > Fascinating. Except that it will be absurd for me
> to> > switch to Linux for that purpose.
> >
> Why? You did switch from DOS to Windows 3.1, then
> from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, then from Windows 98
> to Windows XP [I presume :-)], and at each point you
> _lost_ something, and you had to learn some totally
> useless> crap [things like Registry or how to force
Explorer> to _show_> the extension of the filenames].
It's really much simpler than that. I am a Mac user
who reluctantly bought an XP/Vaio horror in order to
run games and some other things for the kids.
I know that I must put up with Windows and our next
machine will probably be another of the WinHorrors.
But please don't blame me.
> Right now, the installation of Linux requires almost
> _no_
> high-tech knowledge.
Yes, but I need turn-key usability for programs/games
my kids bring home.
> Uh? Do the Chinese own something of the Linux
> Kernel?
> Is Linus Tovalds the Manchurian puppet? :-)
Worse. They get the kernel for free ("Thanks you
stupid western fools!") Then they copyright a VARIANT
and call it SINUX. You CAN copyright a variant.
Now REQUIRE that a billion Chinese people use Sinux.
You now have an operating system that required no R&D,
whose future improvements come for free. Yet all the
Chinese innovators using SINUX will be writing
programs that ONLY run on Sinux.
Yes it is evil. And it can work.
db
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