Ranum.com: Who Needs an Enemy When You Can Divide and Conquer Yourself?

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"It takes longer to configure code than to compile it these days, which is categorically not the case on Windows. Commercial grade Windows software just works and usually keeps working. Do you think that this might, just maybe, have something to do with the reason that major apps like Adobe's Photoshop, Macromedia's Director, Adobe Premiere, etc, are still not available on UNIX and, in my opinion _never_ will be... [Usually, this is the point where someone jumps up and yells "Photoshop runs on Macs--and Mac OSX is UNIX!" That's true, but it doesn't count. Photoshop was coded to the MacIntosh user interface, not X-windows, and functions on OSX as a side-effect of the excellent backwards-compatibility that Apple slavishly built into their kernel-swap.]

"Why is all this relevant? Because the UNIX wars didn't end and, consequently, the 'last man standing' is still Microsoft / Intel.

"What do you mean, 'they didn't end...?'"

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