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Re: [LUG] More MS fud against Linux -

 

On Saturday 29 January 2005 11:48 pm, Grant Sewell wrote:
"Linux is not ready for mission-critical computing.

It's closer than Windows has ever been!

There are fundamental 
things missing.

Viruses, trojans, backdoors, arbitrary executable locations, filesystem 
permissions that can be evaded without a rootkit . . . . 

For example, there is no single development environment 
for Linux as there is for Microsoft, neither is there a single sign-on
system."

So, what is this "single" development environment for Microsoft?  Would
that be Visual Basic?  Visual C++?  C#?  Any of the languages under the
.NET umbrella?  What about Delphi?  God forbid - evan Java?!  I see a whole
lot of single DEs in there!

He's thinking of a single development environment as a single set of API's 
with known locations, calls and libraries rather than an IDE. He's 
conveniently forgotten that many Windows programmers are STILL writing new 
applications to run on Win9x, still supporting old applications that require 
command.com and have to write for NT and Win2k as well as XP!

Not even Apple has a "single development environment" - it's an impossible 
dream. MacOSX would have dropped OS9 (Classic) support if such a dream was a 
reality. If Apple (in a world of closed hardware and a tightly controlled OS) 
cannot achieve it, Microsoft with their plethora of hardware support 
requirements AND multiple platforms don't have a hope.

You've just got to love this bunkum.

And take every opportunity to debunk it - Windows users and the wider public 
are used to believing this junk.


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