Re: Borland's Net Loss Desaster

Kyle A. Miller wrote:

> That's me! I had Linux installed. I had Kylix installed. What I
> didn't have time for was learning to configure a desktop Linux system
> via command line with tools I didn't have time to learn if they
> weren't obvious in use. I learned some. I still have my "Learning
> Linux" book here.

Me too. What made me finally trash my Linux partition was having to do
the 'dependancy shuffle' every time I wanted to install a new piece of
software. You'd download application A, but that wouldn't run until
you'd installed library B (not included in download, and who's download
location had to often be Googled), which in turn needed library C
(which had to be compiled, meaning you needed the latest version of
compiler x), which in turn....

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