Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:43:43 -0800 From: "Chris Fox (Excell Data Corporation)" <a-chrisf@exchange.microsoft.com> To: <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>, <newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EB@df-muttley.dogfood>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C2A9EA.0E095810 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: John Murphy [mailto:jfm@blueyonder.co.uk]=20 >Absolutely Not deliberately inscrutable. How can it be when it's open source? As for barriers, may you never have to try to recover someone's precious files from a machine running windows 2k with what thankfully turned out to be failing DDR memory. It was the abysmal recovery toolset on the install CD I was horrified by. Had I not found the fault I would probably have fitted a FreeBSD HD next :) Since this thread is probably off-topic anyway I don't want to keep it going, but I do want to say that this constant bashing of Windows is most "off-putting" and I can tell you from personal experience that I would have gotten into UNIX at least five years and probably ten years before I did were it not for the condecending crap I got over the years for being a Windows programmer. =20 But the deliberate inscrutability of UNIX isn't something I made up, I've had people brag to me about it, as though having to learn a different command set for every application or utility represents some sort of strength. I totally approve of keeping the morons away from computers but making things deliberately cryptic also drives away bright people who come to regard the whole thing as amateurish. 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