From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 17:49:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44DFD37B953 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 26448 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2000 00:49:26 -0000 Received: from du96.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.96) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 3 Jun 2000 00:49:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3938340F.58BEDB21@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 18:24:15 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stefan KORONKA wrote: > > > This is not to say that FreeBSD can't be > > made simpler, but there is a limit, and that limit is more > > complex than > > Windows. > > As a programmer who wrote (argh!) several applications for > windoze, from standard api stuff to com servers, i can't say > that windows is simple .. In fact, I find it more complex > than unix. My personal opinion is that: for windoz, if something > can be made harder, it will be. Opposed to: in unix, if something > can be solved simple, then it is .. > > Of course, for regular user, windoze can be a very friendly (?), > easy-to-start environment. But under this inflexible simplicity, > it is hiding a very huge mess. I agree that programming Windows is a hideous experience (especially the subtle, undocumented differences among platforms), but it was the regular user's experience that I was referring to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message