[plug] Gates: 'Linux makes interoperability harder'

[Gregory Orange]

I can understand the concept of one provider, one set of interoperations 
(how's that for a word). I understand that Macintosh do that with their 
hardware/OS/software, and there's no need to go through the complexity 
of interacting (interoperating?) with other vendors, backyard 
programmers (even including very high quality ones such as large 
portions of the Open Source community) etc. I guess a lot of it is about 
control - even MS have control over (or 'give guidance to') companies 
that use or build upon MS products.

Of course on a more cynical note, it also means you can invent your own 
standards or not even follow any, because quick and dirty hacks will 
never be uncovered by those outsiders... until someone discovers the 
buffer overflow I guess.

Re: the Subject; 'harder' maybe meaning "harder to set up, but then it 
works like a charm forever coz it's good quality" as opposed to "Install 
it using simple wizards now, cry over trying to fix it later". But there 
are so many people who are short-sighted, and will choose the latter. 
Even intentionally short-sighted because "you won't get fired for buying 
(IBM) Microsoft".

> I'm somewhat philosophical about setting passwords on windows boxes,
> because it doesn't seem to make a difference security-wise at the end of
> the day.
I think that's a one-eyed anti-Windoze rant. Plug subscribers would (and 
do) abuse MS employees for saying the same sorts of biased things about 
Linux. Of course setting a password makes a difference.

Greg.

Kai wrote:

> I needed a good laugh !
> 
> Gates: 'Linux makes interoperability harder'
> http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39127619,00.htm
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