Re: ASM vs HLL : absurd war

From: Percival (dragontamer5788_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/24/04

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    Betov wrote:
    > "Beth" <BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> écrivait
    > news:eHmMc.17$mn4.9@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net:
    >
    >
    >>Broaden your horizons, Rene...if only you'd done so sooner, then you'd
    >>already be using an actual "ethical" OS without having to try to dodge
    >>the "Windows assembler" comments with "ReactOS" distractions and
    >>diversions..._YOU_ should have wrote LuxAsm...but, seeing as you
    >>didn't, we'll take over...
    >
    >
    >
    > Mind you, i have spend more than 20x times more money
    > for linux than i ever did for Windows (buying hardware,
    > specifically, to run Linux, and buying books).
    >
    > I also have spent more than 2000x more time intalling
    > Linux Distros, than i ever spent at installing Windows.

    Your failures in the world of linux doesn't mean that others failed too.
    Anyway, today linux supports much more hardware than before, and so you
    probably don't have to change your computer to run linux anymore.

    At the same time, i guess you never tried KNOPPIX linux, where you just
    pop in the CD and it runs the whole thing off the CD, instantly
    autodetecting the hardware and configuring on the spot. I am sure future
    versions of all linux will support this feature.

    [snipped MS stuff]
    > Now, i have to face _facts_: I never saw any Linux user.
    > All i saw was guys like me, installing Linux, and hoping
    > to have something working under Linux, some day... Now,
    > there is lesser and lesser hope. Everything indicates
    > clearly that Linux will never be on the final users
    > desktops.

    I'd have to say though, linux assembly > MS assembly from my experiances
    so far. And i tend to like the Linux API and system calls, but thats an
    opinion.
    http://counter.li.org/estimates.php
    Linux is more popular than you may think.

    Or maybe you tried linux several years ago, when you had to basically
    compile the kernel yourself and spend hundreds of hours configuring
    devices. Linux isn't like that today. It's gotten better... Much better.

    > Everything indicates, also, that ReactOS _is_ the OS for
    > the future. And, anycase, if ReactOS would fail, for some
    > reason (some Master Pdf sweat dream...), there would simply
    > be no more any future for ethical SoftWare and for the
    > wide world Cultures. So there are, halas, not _two_ bets
    > to be given a try.

    No dream, I never heard of ReactOS in my life, and probably no one else.
    Why will it work i ask? How can a group of people go up against MS? I'd
    have to say, linux has much more of a chance than ReactOS. Anyway, i
    would have to spend money to get ReactOS working on my PC nicely. At
    least Linux supports SVGA and FAT and ext3 and ext2 filesystems, and a
    heck of alot more.
    And most people probably don't want "ethical" software. They want
    software now, software that does work and software that is easy. Should
    ethical software provide this, people will go to ethical software.
    People in general are selfish, and want more for themselves at the cost
    of others. There is little room for ethics today.
    And i would like to see these signs of ReactOS. I haven't seen any
    myself. Or are these signs only seen by experts like you, that won't
    make any sence to someone like me?

    > In case you would really believe i am optimist, i have to
    > state that, generally speacking, I AM NOT. I do not what
    > i do because i believe that ReactOS and the Free SoftWare
    > Mouvement will win the fight: I do what i do because i am
    > what i am. Period. Will my hopes be defeated? Maybe.
    > Probably. But i will work and fight up to my death to try
    > to make my hopes possible, if ever, but not up to the point
    > of working for a bet with zero chance of success. If i was
    > in the idea that Linux would have some small chance of
    > success, LuxAsm would be written since some time.

    I think you are taking this Free Software thing a tiny bit too far. The
    idea of Free Software isn't to kill microsoft, but to simply, make free
    software.
    Anyway... If you really dislike MS that much, stop supporting them with
    your assembler :) Making code that only works on Windows only supports
    MS. And RosAsm makes both of these. Anyway, i don't care much about
    linux's future, what i see is
    Wow, this stuff works great!
    Not,
    OMFG windoze suxxorz you by stealing from the poor and giving to themselves.

    > Betov.
    >
    > < http://betov.free.fr/RosAsm.html >
    >
    >

    Percival

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