:) Good one. To address your question, John B., yes, M$ Windows does suck. But why? Dustin has made a good argument that open source software can be equally buggy, and can be even more so.
But here is the difference: we pay $$$ for M$ software, and commercial software EULAs give us no rights or recourse for buggy software. Open source software is free, and if it is buggy, we have all the rights to fix those bugs. Sure, Linux/UNIX/etc geeks tend to harp that M$ Windows is buggy and crashes, BSODs, etc. but the truth is that Linux has bugs too. Granted, most of those bugs do not bring the entire machine down, but let's be generous and say that all software has bugs. If so, then open source software is preferable, exactly because it is open. John Hebert --- john beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Subject: header....? > > -- > -j > > John Beamon > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:57:47 -0500 > > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks > > > > At 09:58 PM 4/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >Let me regroup and summarize, just to see if I'm > following. > > > > > >...Does windows suck? > > > > What does that have to do with this thread of > conversation? ;) > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > > > > > >-- > > >-j > > > > > >John Beamon > > > > > >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:16:16 -0500 > > > > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks > > > > > > > > At 05:39 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > >Yes. > > > > > > > > How does writing open source software reduce > the number of errors that you > > > > introduce into code? In my view open source > software only increases the > > > > number of eyeballs that can spot those errors. > > > > > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >John Hebert > > > > > > > > > >--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > At 03:25 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > > >Sounds like a combination of problems. > But, when it > > > > > > >comes to tracking down problems, I > _always_ suspect > > > > > > >software, not hardware, first. Software > is just > > > > > > easier > > > > > > >to screw up, especially on a closed > source > > > > > > operating > > > > > > >system. Now, it may be that the hardware > in the > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you think closed software is easier to > "screw up" > > > > > > or simply more > > > > > > difficult to fix? 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