On 11/1/06, Mogens Nørrgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk> wrote:
>
> Baumgartel, Paul wrote:
>
> RAC on Linux is far more commonly used than RAC on Windows...you're
> likely to be less well-supported if you use Windows.
>
>
> NIMB (Not In My Backyard) :-))). I see about the same number of RAC
> installations on Windows and Linux. Those two operating systems are of
> course equally lousy compared to my beloved VMS, so it doesn't really
> matter. Nothing will ever be as good as VMS. Sigh.
>
> I have no idea why people think that open source should be of better
> quality than closed source, or that something is better because large parts
> of it has been coded by people in their sparetime (tired, after working
> their normal jobs, etc.), but that seem to be of secondary nature anyway to
> the Very Important Fact, that Microsoft can be bashed. It's religion, and I
> hate it.
>
> Mogens
>
I'd say it was a philosophy clash and not a religious one per se that goes
back to http://catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ Eric
Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar essay. Of course I happen to think that
the essay is wrong, and that extrapolating from a single project to derive
general principles is A Bad Thing (tm), but it is at the very least an
arguable case.
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Received on Wed Nov 01 2006 - 11:08:22 CST
