Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 19:40:13 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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On Wed, 2003-04-30 18:03:17 -0700, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote in message <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com>: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:43:47AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Larry McVoy writes: > And as much as I dislike Microsoft, I'd argue that the middleware layer > that they provide which makes all the windows apps work together is > maybe even a bigger deal than the web. Unix has been trying to build > something like that for decades and never has. Neither Gnome nor KDE > matches what they have, not a chance. And the reason is that that
Now, after using Linux (and some other Un*xes as well:) I wouldn't compare Windows to Gnome or KDE. I'd better compare Windows to sh, awk, sed, ... The best thing ever seems to be '|', '&&' and '||' :-)
> layer is the computing version of ditch digging, it's not sexy, it's > not math, it's just a pile of grunt work, a huge pile. And Microsoft
Nothing sexy there, but some simple sh scripts are damn neat to that:)
MfG, JBG
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