On 5/17/07, Richard Davey <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Greg, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 5:49:45 PM, you wrote: >> Sure, but you're in the minority*, so what do I care? :) > I'm not asking you to care. Windoze still sucks, no matter how many > idiots use it. The virus protection racket alone is enough to make me > throw up. Viruses? God, that old bullshit ladened chestnut*. At least come up with some kind of valid OS argument, please. If you'd gone for 'competent use of the CPU', or 'effective memory management', you'd be worth taking seriously. Unless you're not asking me to take you seriously of course. Cheers, Rich * I've not had a virus -infect- a Windows box for over a decade. -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
It seems to me as though the OS argument is almost ignorant enough to equate as, "I have no desire to be a pilot, so to hell with teaching anyone else to be." PHP is meant to be as cross-platform as possible, and to have an open source project *REALLY* succeed, it needs to be accessible on a variety of platforms and distributions. One may only have access to a Windows machine at home, work, or school, and/or may not be able to modify something as key as the operating system. Additionally, perhaps they need to interface said OS with Microsoft-proprietary software or something only available on a Win32 machine. To discount a tutorial on how to do this is ludicrous.... I guarantee that not one of us here has gotten to where we are now --- let alone where we'll be in the future --- without the help of an online walk-through or two, even if someone, somewhere, considered it to be less than worthwhile. I am a Linux user myself - at work, at home, and even in my vehicles. While I prefer the Linux operating system as a whole over any other, it is just that --- I *prefer* it. Sure, I push for others to at least give it a try, but I'm not going to classify someone as an "idiot" because they choose not to get off of the Windows platform. I just fail to see how such closed-mindedness is in any way beneficial to the evolution and advancement of the open source community, and moreover, technological advancements as a whole. So with my two cents in there as well, we've almost got enough for a can of soda to get the bad taste of this conversation out of our mouths. I vote for ginger ale, so that it will calm Greg's stomach after the "virus protection racket" ad nauseum the poor guy experiences. We don't need any vomit on our nice, clean list. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107
