__/ [ Linonut ] on Tuesday 18 July 2006 03:46 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>>> The only problem is, what kind of developers? Systems? Apps?
>>> Web? Script kiddies?
>>
>> For what it's worth, I read that somewhere as well. I can't
>> recall how it was counted, but an argument was made which
>> implied that Linux developers outnumber or _will soon_
>> outnumber Windows developers. The place where I read it was
>> reliable. It wasn't a podcast.
>
> Well, the Linux tools are certainly cheaper than Windows tools, even
> counting the cost-free Windows tools.
Shareware is not Free. It's free and buggy. Bugs you cannot
fix and projects you cannot harness, either.
> You know what the Win-wags say about Linux, of course
>
> <whine>
> It's only free if your time is worth nothing.
> </whine>
Winvocates live in an isolated world where everyone appears
to be mastering .Net and so-called 'mainstream' technologies
such as that. In reality, there is more to the world than
just the States. The number of projects in fm.net and sf.net
are an indication of how broad OSS has become. Among
professionals and learners alike. The number is verging
100,000 the last time I checked and since plenty of projects
rely on re-use, they are far more extensive and thoroughly
tested than freeware and shareware.
> Well, that goes double for Windows, where you spend a fair amount of
> time wrestling with Microsoft's idea of what constitutes development,
> instead of writing code and building it (and on multiple platforms at
> that!)
With Windows, you are overly occupied with the need to
re-invent the wheel. You may be getting paid merely for
chasing your tail. Try testing so many off-the-ground
projects and end up with something shoddy and fragile like
the Windows kernel and the old (pre-X) Mac kernel.
> I'm mainly talking about Visual Studio here. That product is like a
> helpful brother-in-law who spills paint, kills the grass, and drips
> asphalt coating all over your chrysanthemums.
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