On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:50:22PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:16:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > (Every place I've ever been at, people who had a choice would never ever > > develop under Windows, so I've never seen any real mixing - even when some > > parts of the project were DOS/Windows stuff, there was a clear boundary > > between the stuff that was actually done under Windows) > > The reality I see is the other way around as common practice. > For people that has never tried a Linux box the barrier > is quite high and they prefer to stick with Windows. And for those who have never tried Windows, it would be a great learning barrier as well, and it is far for obvious what would be easy to learn for someone has never had any experience with either of them before... Of course, most people who has used computers for some time could not escape having at least some experience with Windows, and, naturally people prefer to stick to what they know, especially those who do not like or find difficult to learn new stuff. Based on my observation, I would say that those found learning Linux difficult would also find difficult to learn other new things (like a new programming language), and usually had more troubles in dealing with novel situations or doing anything that required out-of-the-box thinking... Usually, they are good only on one thing -- doing what they were told. There are some exceptions, of course, but take a look at the number of open source projects (where people write for fun of programming) and compare how many of them are done by *nix users and Windows users. Isn't obvious what most people who like programing prefer to use? Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
