From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 30 14: 1:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCF737B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7UL0Rt37033; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:00:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:00:25 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000830205243.A23746@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Today j mckitrick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:32:20PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > | > 3. Why doesn't M$ use such a tool to improve code quality? They of all > | > people have the funds. > | > | The tools won't run on Windows platforms; they require big iron. > | The smallest systems you'll find them on are UNIX engineering > | workstations with a lot of RAM and a lot of disk. > > I mean why not use these tools during the development process, on > non-windows machines, of course? Why would they bother? M$ is a marketing company not a technology company. As long as the masses continue to pay for their crap in a box they have no incentive to fix or improve it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message