On June 3, 2005 09:08 pm, Robert Lewko wrote: > On June 3, 2005 04:16 pm, Peter Carless wrote: > > Hi, > > Joke for the weekend. > > Microsoft Open Windows. > > > > Check out http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2939&p=4 > > Even if MS were not predatory, they opened up the code under the GPL, gave > a billion to charity, set up a trust fund for open source development I'd > still dislike windows. > > The OS sucks: > (1) its architecture will never allow it to be as flexible as > BSD/Unix/Linux, (2) its API's (all of them) are too complex > (3) drives named after letters of the alphabet will never scale like the > mount points of unix. > (4) network API's seem like they are an afterthought patched on afterward. > (5) it seems like to get anything done you have to blur user permissions > with admin permissions. > > I could go on, but I'm sure that you get the idea that I'm happier using > Linux. > P.S. Unix isn't perfect either, but I find it easier to live with its quirks and limitations and with windows.
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