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Billy Holmes posted <436A6226.7060206@××××××.net>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:16:54 -0500: |
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> Herman Roozenbeek wrote: |
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>> The same goes for me... But I really can't believe that nobody at |
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>> Microsoft knows why this is so. Unless Linux-users know more about |
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>> Microsoft's history than Microsoft itself does. ;-) |
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> I have several theories: |
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> (1) they want to forget about DOS, and want us to do the same |
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> (2) command line? What's that? "nothing to see here, move along." |
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> (3) MS programmers may have finally attained that status where they are |
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> so removed from the inner workings of the OS through higher level |
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> languages that true OS wizardy is only held by a select few. |
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I'd say it's #3. Remember, MS is (unfortunately still, tho I wouldn't |
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object if it were hardware only, or the software were all make GPL |
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compatible open source) a living corporation, with a non-zero employee |
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turnover rate, and like any large corporation, is highly departmented, |
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such that the right hand often doesn't know what the left hand is doing |
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(and even less, what they did a decade ago). |
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It's likely that few actually doing the coding now were around for the |
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days of MSDOS, and while some remember 9x, they coded GUI, not command |
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line DOS, for it. While 9x was still DOS based and had a semi-decent DOS |
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command line, even at that point, it would have been the old veterans |
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doing the coding for it, while the vast majority including all the new |
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guys did GUI only. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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