Rich Freeman via plug on 8 May 2020 13:47:14 -0700 |
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On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:07 PM Fred Stluka via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > > I already knew Microsoft was unethical. And was > learning that they wrote really sloppy software. But when > they paid to fly me to Redmond to "show them how I did that" > in their VB programming language, I met a bunch of their > "best and brightest". Confirmed my worst suspicions. Not > a clue about reliability, security, etc. Uh, have you seen what those same 20 year olds are doing with FOSS today? Half of the newer programming languages are almost impossible to package because their build systems just download random dependencies online, are statically linked, and so on. You're not going to avoid these problems by avoiding Microsoft. Also, it seems like half of this whole discussion is as dated as the 1991 post on that website... -- Rich -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug