Re: [FreeDNS] Don't like Windows!!!!

["Colin Alston" <diskbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

If there is one thing that annoys me to the point of insanity, it's an
uninformed opinion.

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Downs
To: freedns@xxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: [FreeDNS] Don't like Windows!!!!

"I think you're wrong that most servers run Linux or Unix. I think most
corporates run Windows on their servers, although it is true that many of
these have at least one or two Linux servers running as web and other
Internet servers - but this is changing since IIS is slowly catching up."

In what way is IIS catching up? Its ridiculously slow compared to any BSD or
Linux implementation.


"The biggest reason why I don't like Linux is the same reason why I don't
program in any implementation of C. No interface, language, or environment
should ever be case sensitive! (Except where passwords are concerned, but
that's a given)"

That is such a sad reasoning its just not funny. How does Linux and C being
case sensitive make them completely unusable? You would rather forgo their
much higher performance and flexibility simply because you cant get used to
the fact that they are case sensitive? Sad!

" Another reason is less specific to Linux - I don't like open source. It is
damn near impossible for me to conceive that a developer could make any real
money developing on a Linux platform. The money only comes in support, which
kind of implies that you need to deliberately write crap software that's
full of bugs so that people will pay you to support it. I think that the
concept that "nobody owns information" is very Marxist and, as we've
discovered, it's a very nice ideal, but nobody has been able to make it work
in the real world. "

If you don't like Open Source, then don't make Open Source software, it's a
simile solution. No one is telling you to, and most certainly no one expects
Linux software to be free just because the OS is.

"Further, I think that the fact that Linux is free is actually hurting its
viability in the real world. It may be sad, but the fact still remains that
the majority of people (Especially those with money) still draw a parallel
between price and quality. If I market an application to the corporate IT
industry for, say, R2 000 a pop, I will lose if a competitor markets a
similar product (Which to all intents and purposes provides exactly the same
functionality) for R80 000 a pop."

That is utter nonsense. Linux's dedicated network of people who are working
on the OS for love not for money mean that it IS a much higher quality than
corporate OS's. The fact that so many people have access to the code means
that bugs and problems get sorted out quickly. The saying is true, two heads
make better than one. Well the millions of heads that make Linux are much
better than the hundred or so that make Windows.


"I do agree that the cost of Microsoft software (And pretty much all
commercial software) is prohibitive, and this is very sad. I think that its
got a lot to do with the exchange rate in SA, but piracy also plays a huge
part (If you sell less, you have to charge more), and also the whole "price
= quality" concept I mentioned."

If you charge more, you will sell less. If you start a monopoly and then
make your software affordable, there is nothing people can do other than
pirate it.

"As far as security goes, I've heard the arguments, but nobody's proved it
to me."

You will be very emarased when someone does.

"I've been securing NT servers and domains for the past 5 years, and on many
occasions I have given people the IP address of my home telnet server and
asked them to delete a certain file off the disk, change a specific user's
password, etc, but nobody has yet been able to log in."

Mabe they thought you were lame and never bothered?

Ok. Well my Linux server is always up after 7 on karnaugh.za.net so please
see if you can break into my SSH? You do know what SSH is?

"But a properly configured NT box is better than a haphazardly configured
Linux box. ;-)"

But a properly configured Linux box (which is simply a case of having half a
brain and two pairs of hands) is better than any (no matter how well
configured) Windows NT/2000 box.


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