Dave Ihnat wrote:
Once, long ago--actually, on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:27:51AM -0400--Bill Davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx) said:
... I believe most Windows things are done by closed source
proprietary magic, involving a man in a loincloth with feathers in
his hair dancing around a fire waving a dead chicken.
Actually, I see a lot of that when people try to describe Linux...they
*can* go read the source, but they *don't*.
Fortunately, Cygwin is all FOSS. But, again, the vast majority of people
never crack the source, so there's a certain amount of magic in their
interpretation of the vagaries of the behavior of different packages.
Cygwin isn't really a "Windows thing" in the sense I meant, and certainly code
is out there. As many people know I'm not shy about cracking source code and
even had some patches accepted into the kernel, at least the "-ac" kernels as
lately as the 2.5 development process. But inferring admin procedures from
source is time consuming as best, doc is better.
Traditional closed source Windows OS and apps go back to the "dead chicken"
school of programming. I don't have to use Windows, and other than putting
changes in MS-BASIC back in the 90's, I don't want to see the source code if I
could. :-(
Your point about Cygwin and FOSS is a good one, and I agree that people don't
dive in even when they can. Everyone is too busy.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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