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

[ Thanks to Tom
Wickline for this link. ]

“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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