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To: Herb Duncan who wrote (29094)	1/7/2007 8:09:26 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78424

Linux is not a great computer system either. They fired a welfare worker in New York state who got all her clients jobs. She rocked the boat. The biggest welfare recipients in Ontario were the computer programmers who wrote the web app which now runs the welfare application system. 175 million for the software. Not the hardware or network infrastructure, just the program. It probably cost them 15 person years to write it. Maybe 1 million. Nice profit. Linux is hamstrung partly by Stallman's lock hold of the GPL on software he rewrote from BSD tools. It was not his to rewrite. GNU tools nobody will use to write serious software as while it has no unwritten secret API, it has no documentation, is a cockroach hotel, and has no devolopment platform that allows one to take advantage of time saveing. While many ideas like CSV and standards are good, you have to be a unblievably arcane expert nerd to program in Linux often. Perl is powerful but not a good computer language for people to read. It is an ad hoc mess. Kylix does not make it or Shelf. WINE is too difficult touse and takes too long for porting. What is needed is a dual porting tool that makes Unix-windows programs. What is great about linux is also what is terrible. You need more drivers. But Linux insists it seems (so to speak) on -- code in the clear. Business insists on collecting for (hidden) code. The two have a hard time meeting in the middle. Linux's serious survival depends on both co-existing somehow in some as yet not figured out paradigm of pay-free platform(s). HAving said all this, Linux is the "ONLY" system to use for a server. Rock hard porn-star stability. Networking is MUCH better, if you stick to TCP/IP-FTP. Nobody yet uses much X server, or secure NFS, as it is WAY too high bandwidth for the net and MUST be trusted!!! Yet it is a brilliant solution for companies who don't want programs stolen. Selling time makes more sense for high value programs. If it could be made LDAP-like work from a browser simple with no direct write to disk then it might work well if bandwidth was reduced by 90%. This could be done with the browser knows all high level commands paradigm. It would not need SMB or secure NFS if it could be run over TCP/IP. The trouble with Windows is the only reason to buy it and its programs is the installed base, and the slick sales talk. It works like crap and as far as price goes it is too high, as it often takes way too much time to use effectively. You cannot afford to buy the stuff if you don't know what it does. MOst windows software is pure monetary risk and the needed programs add up fast. I am half inclined to shelve the whole electronic thing and go cave man. Use an old transit, paper maps, hand writing and the post office. fik the electro world. Does not pay that well and sucks up way too much time. EC<:-}