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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:59:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:39:33 +0200
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> boringly babbled:
>On 2024-08-19 10:40, David Brown wrote:
>> On 19/08/2024 09:37, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> There's no doubt that non-technical issues have had a big influence on 
>> which OS's or types of OS have succeeded, but you seem to have something 
>> specific in mind.
>
>I think the main reason is that we do not pay the actual costs of 
>software developing. OS, compiler require huge investments. Vendors 
>never passed these to the end users funding developing from other 
>sources. That effectively killed the market. Free software only 
>aggravated the situation. In effect it is akin to the socialist 
>production method which always kills quality.

You are a comedian arn't you. Its not a good idea to criticise the quality
of OSS when at the same time advocating for Windows, an OS thats had more
security holes than the entire cheese production of switzerland.

>Initially an ability to trim the system and sometimes to patch a driver 
>was a huge advantage Linux had over Windows NT.

Linux can also load and unload drivers on the fly unlike Windows which AFAIK
still requires a reboot each time.