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Re: redhat-linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mason)
Sun Nov 15 02:37:23 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:37:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Mason <jm672@columbia.edu>
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HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO????? did you read the e-mail? I said, if anyone would
like to start a SEPARATE discussion list e-mail me. I didn't doubt you
geniuses that there were not other newsgroups. DUH.
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Lance Cummings wrote:
> >
> > No, Linux is not likely to replace WIndows anytime soon, and this
> > probably isn't the place for this type of discussion. ;-)
>
> Agreed, and there are lots of more appropriate places (web sites and
> mailing lists in addition to newsgroups) where the finer points of this
> can be studied and mulled over.
>
> But: most of the reasons why Windows will tend to stick around have to
> do with politics and inertia over OS techical merit.
>
> Applications which run faster or mor reliably under Windows tend to do
> so for reasons having to do with the apps themselves, not with the OS in
> question. An app which has been well-optomized for DOS but poorly
> ported to UNIX will run better on DOS. Case in point: FoxPro. Time
> will improve this situation where Linux is concerned, and things are
> already getting better than they were a few months ago.
>
> Throughout history it has been the tendency of information to
> disseminate. While the Windows/Linux "war" may be in doubt, the
> eventual success of OpenSource over ClosedSource as a software
> development paradigm seems to me to be a foregone conclusion.
>
>
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