Hi,
Is it just me or is that Rony really gets slugged a lot everytime he
mentions Windows on this list.
- I attended my first LUG Meet yesterday. There was a demo on Eclipse from
some heads from IBM -"Open Source" is the basis of "ON Demand" business, which made absolutely no sense to me. In the QnA that ensued, someone popped a q asking if their pluggable architect. mimics emacs. The IBM guy apparently did not know his Open source that well and he popped the magic question 'Is emacs open source?' (uproar-jeering-chaos for someone who sure is not coming back for an encore). Linux in India lacks general awareness.
Met too, i also attended the first ILUG Bom meeting and the eclispe guy was amazing. He said he is an open source Evangelist and then the glorious question came. But i think we should commend the guys who organised it. I mean the meting fulfilled its purpose at least for me it got me an insight into the pluggable eclipse architecture . So now its upon us to explore. And the second part of the session was real cool esp the QnA session brought out some rela good qs. And about windoze or M$ bashing , i guess the desktop worrld can learn from it a lot and anatgonism is never gona be helpful windoze does have some good features thats why so many people use it.... And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made the least amount of bad business decisions. So take the good from M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it... I mean Lotus made mistakes IBM did ..
ciao,
pl
features thats why so many people use it.... And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made the least amount of bad business decisions.
That's true; MS is _really_ good at marketing. But if you like management speak, I'd say MS successfully marketed bad decisions. They scrapped entire OSs!
So take the good from M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it...
You get what you deserve, so if MS gets bashed every now and then, perhaps it deserves to be bashed.
I mean Lotus made mistakes IBM did ..
I'd really like to know the mistakes Lotus did. IMHO Lotus was eons ahead of it's time. Look at what Ray Ozzie is trying to do with groove; you'll get a picture :).
This also goes with the GNU project, what FSF will do today WILL be the order of the day in a say 7-10 years from now.
Regards,
ah
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Amol Hatwar -
Puneet Lakhina