On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:56 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > "How many of you use Linux?" I ask.
The awkwardness is in the definition of the question. Many of the products that I buy will have, at some point, been carried by a truck, but I would answer "No" if someone asked me if I use a truck. Would you say that you "use", say, Windows 2000? Do you even *know* if any of the web sites you use are built on it? What about Cisco Router, Model <insert product identifier>? I personally have no idea what networking hardware my ISPs use, nor should I care. When I do a Google search, I don't "use" their Linux; I use only the TCP/IP socket connection. If they were to rip out Linux tomorrow and put in a perfect replacement that they wrote in-house, I wouldn't know and, to be honest, wouldn't care. In the same way, they don't care if I write my own web server; they'll crawl the documents just the same. Doesn't mean they "use" my custom web server, and certainly doesn't mean that everyone who does a search that's affected by my content has "used" that server. > Their true platform is the Internet. Indeed it is. Operating system means nothing; IP transmissions mean everything. Your platform is a TCP socket (or, less commonly, a stream of UDP or other packets). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
