On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bob Miller wrote:
> Actually, it isn't a joke, it's a real piece of mail, whose author
> is, AFAIK, serious. Windows is the joke.
It is serious. We've discussed this before: Linux support is ultimately
easier to do (more remote access, less time spent, less fixing needed,
less crashes, etc etc), and on a consulting basis, less money to be made
'fixing stuff' afterward. You make more money supporting Windows.
> I see this as a potential obstacle to adoption of alternative OSs (which
> I'll define for the purpose of this paragraph as "an OS that works"): the
> great army of mediocre code hacks who do sloppy work may not want to give
> up their standard scapegoat.
Sloppy coders are laughed at in the open source world because of the
sloppy code, and so they are loath to even put stuff out there, because
in a closed source environment, nobody knows how bad the code is, but when
everyone can review and patch, bad code sticks out like a sore thumb.
