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

From: CodeSprite (pmaloy_at_codesprite.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:35:17 -0400

"Guy Macon" <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote in message
news:EMWdnbkdE8Lws-rd4p2dnA@speakeasy.net...
>
> 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.

Well I have, but only since about 1989.

>
> 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?
>

My original posting was an honest enquiry - what are the real mechanisms
protecting linux?

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

Agreed - from bitter experience I've learnt that you estimate the time it
should take to write a device driver and multiply it by three when the
target OS is Windows CE. I'm not an apologist for Microsoft. Don't get so
emotional ;)

>
> --
> 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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