********************************************************* Alan P. Rudy Visiting Associate Professor Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Central Michigan University 124 Anspach Hall Mt Pleasant, MI 48858 517-881-6319
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:43 AM, John S Costello <joxn.costello at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the rant... but it was good to get that off my chest ;-). And I
> > came here to find people to have lunch with me and Chris. I might have
> just
> > lost the Microsoft lovers!
>
> Not me! I was a Linux/Beowulf cluster partisan when I was a grad
> student. I've got a Debian box and a Mac box at home. And I answered
> questions for the GPL FAQ mailing list for years.
>
> But, I'm working on a team which is trying to solve some problems
> that I think will never be solved by the Open Source community,
> because they are 1) hard, 2) not sexy, 3) involve a lot of scut work,
> and 4) benefit from the fact that MS owns the operating system and the
> development tool stack and the collaboration layer on top of it.
> There are times when being a monolith has its advantages. Plus, it's
> in an area where *nix has a 95% market share, so the team I'm on can't
> afford to blithely ignore customers' needs. Competition really does
> focus the mind.
>
> -- John
>
> --
> "The more I practice, the luckier I get." -- Ben Hogan
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