Marco van de Voort wrote: >> > People don't dig into such stuff will be never good programmers, so I >> > see no real problem if they give up :) Programming is full of such >> > challenges. >> >> Partly I agree, but, what has a good programmer to do with internals of >> any >> os? > > Philosophically saying, that would enter the programmer into a purely > consumer relation with the OS. Which isn't the case in OSS, since there is > a > shared responsibility by all users, nobody excluded. . .
You hit the point, except that it _is_ becoming the case with Linux distributed by companies who provide support to their users. ;-) FPC installer shouldn't make assumptions about the type of user (consumer or OSS geek), because both exist nowadays. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
