NB: added OT to subj. Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> seems to me most software developed today is graphical I guess I either live on a different planet or work in a different industry. Granted, I don't have hard numbers, but it seems to me that graphical programming, including GUI (and, just to lump it all together, anything Windows-related, graphical or not) is a tiny, insignificant portion of the software industry. Try to think of all the computers you encounter and use, directly or indirectly, during your normal weekday. Count those that you don't see at all. How many are in your car (hint, if it is new, it well may be 20), the elevator in your office, in your bank, in the post office, your cell phone *and network*, the telephone exchange, the supermarket (no, not just cash registers), your stereo, your insurance company, your ISP, all the market infrastructure that your broker uses to handle your investments, you name it. Now, how many of the computers that help you get through the day have any graphical interface at all? On those few that do, what portion of the software deals with graphics? Note that the argument that lots of people use the telephone exchange while half of them have a personal desktop computer is irrelevant: they all use the same software, written once. ObSubj: hell, I hope that you simply never thought of those things, Ilya (which is no problem) or trying to spread FUD (which is a problem), because if you've been trolling, I've been had ;-) ObLinux: I consider what I said above a very good incentive to choose Linux rather than an alternative OS as one's main career path. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
