[TheForge] Re: LINUX?

[Andrew Vida]

Here's the simple rule of thumb that has very few exceptions:

	UNIX == GOOD
	  M$ == Worst of the worst, and worse than that yet.

	Anyone that thinks a Micro$haft "OS" can in any way compete
	with *NIX for reliability and efficiency needs to get a clue.
	I've been in the SW biz a fairly long time and have worked 
	with it all, and M$ is not fit for business use.  It's not 
	even close.  ANy business that chooses M$ does so at their
	own risk.  I've managed $50M projects and have categorically
	acted against M$ at every opportunity.  Would you buy a .45
	made of pot metal?  That's about what it is to buy M$ products.
	That so many people have made M$ the largest corporate entity
	in the known world is testimony to laziness and/or ignorance.
	I'd love to put a M$ gas stove in every home that runs their
	software. 50% of America would burn to the ground during
	installation.

	Have you ever seen a M$ product used in realtime machine or
	process control?  There's a reason you haven't.  Nobody with
	the smarts of a boiled rutabaga would risk the sort of exposure
	such a practice would entail.  Could you imagine building flight
	control sowftware using their products?  I bet you'd never get
	such code out of integration test.  Hell, you'd probably give
	up in unit testing.  M$ is pure doodoo, and that's about the best
	thing I can say about it.  However, I will hand it to Bill for
	having parlayed his ninth-rate garbage into the market leader.
	God indeed exists and God's sense of humor can indeed have quite
	the perverse twist at times.  Case in point. :)

	Phew... I feel better now.  Thanks.

Paul Amschler wrote:
> 
>  I must agree. I LOVE Linux or ANY Unix flavor. After being brainwashed by microbloXX I went back to that which computers were first run by unix. As every Linux user knows it isn't 100% ready for everyone who uses a computer but dog gone it it is STABLE and fast! As the movement graows so will us pengiheads.