Re: Working Within the System

From: Linux-brain-of-purity-and-love (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 02:40:55 MDT


It appears as if Emlyn (pentacle) wrote about link
<URL:http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21171,00.html>:

|The link below is to an article by a senior Kylix team member; they are
|moving Delphi & C++ Builder (notable Windows development environment tools)
|to Linux, and providing me with the infrastructure to reach my evil Gatesian
|tentacles into KPJ's Linux-brain-of-purity-and-love.

<grin>

My reasons for preferring Linux over MS-Windows work for me,
not necessarily for anybody else.

My points for preferring Linux over MS-Windows:

  o I want full control over the programs in my cybernetic parts.
        If they don't do what I want, I can rewrite them to do what I want.
        I find reprogramming much easier having the source code available. 6-]

  o I have a limited amount of money.
        Since I don't have to pay for the software, I can use that money to
        upgrade my hardware instead.

  o Most of the MIT cyborgs use Linux, so I can re-use their software.

As you might appreciate, my reasons for preferring Linux need not be yours.
And vice versa.

    /kpj
__________________________________
"People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility
 with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy
 Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much."
        -- P Seebach, alt.folklore.computers



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