Re: Green Hills CEO: Linux threat to free world!

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:14:44 -0700

CodeSprite <pmaloy@codesprite.com> says...

>Well, I don't recall ever installing an application onto Windows, finding it
>required an updated DLL, and when that DLL is installed finding that other
>applications installed earlier in the day mysteriously stop working,

Then you haven't used Windows.

I will give you this, you don't "find that an application requires
an updated DLL." That's because Microsoft apps just install the DLL
without asking or backing up the old one, leaving you wondering why
other applications installed earlier in the day mysteriously stop
working.

I have had apps stop working because someone installed Visual C++.
I have had apps stop working because someone installed a Service Pack.
I have had apps stop working because other apps were installed.

Then I switched to Slackware Linux.

So, does Microsoft pay you to spread FUD in newsgroups, or are you
one of those people who are duped by those who Microsoft pays to
spread FUD in newsgroups?

This is comp.arch.EMBEDDED. We have seen Real-Time Linux and
we have seen Windows CE. You can't fool us. 

-- 
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. 
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you 
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like 
Doc Brown can solve?  My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/

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