Re:In .NET, open source does not beget open source
by billpatrianakos on Monday January 09, 2012 @07:25PM
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Right, that's exactly my point. I'm not criticizing Windows for being Windows but just pointing out why working with it is so frustrating. You restated part of my point very well when you said Windows is an anomaly because it's the last non-Unix OS standing. As for it being a very 21st century view, well, yeah it is. I'm talking about how things are done now. The platforms of the 90's are pointless to even consider as no one is using them anymore. You could get really technical and point out some enthusiasts using BeOS and some other 90's OSes but for the most part they're dead.
Re:In .NET, open source does not beget open source
by derleth on Monday January 09, 2012 @07:16PM
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> these were even less Unix-like than Windows was
Heck, compare MS-DOS to NT-derived Windows. You only get directories beginning in MS-DOS 2.0 and you never get something comparable to fork().
This is a very 21st-century perspective, in that all of these non-Windows platforms are basically Unix. If you look at the platforms that existed in the early 90s -- things like MVS, VMS, TOPS-20, OS/400 -- these were even less Unix-like than Windows was. Windows is an anomaly only because it's the last non-Unix OS standing.