> Another proof that Linux is bloatware: compare the tiny
> "notepad" to the
> 100 MB (!!) XEmacs...
Which reminds me of that programmer who was interviewed in DRDobbs few month
ago, claiming that IE5 was bloatware and that he managed to duplicate the
important capabilities in only a tiny precentage the space.
So far so good.
But if you look at his hack you'd see that he's using:
1) Microsoft's IE5 dll, which is part of windows, and which takes up most of
the space IE5 requires.
2) VB Runtime dll, which sometimes doesn't come with windows and which is
much bigger than IE5
So this guy takes VB and uses MS built in components to build a browser that
is big, slow (its in VB) and without any features (like bookmarks).
Wow, thats progress.
BTW, what's so bad about bloatware? Diskspace is pretty cheap these days.
And I'd rather have that programmer at hp be working on new features,
plucking out bugs, or writing neat tools rather than making it 1M smaller.
Thanks,
Chen.
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