Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:14:57 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'David Kelly'" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, "'Cliff Sarginson'" <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs linux Message-ID: <011201c08453$ca9cce80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200101220557.f0M5vvl09502@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Kelly >Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 9:58 PM >To: Cliff Sarginson >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux > >What I mean by "Microsoft tint" is prefaced by "Microsoft-colored >glasses". Users who know only of Windows bitch when an OS doesn't do >everything the way they are used to. When configuring a foreign system, >or writing code for it, they design the user interface after the >Microsoft model. And use Microsoft terminology to document. And then >complain about how much they hate Microsoft. > Don't go crediting Microsoft for the user interface!!! Microsoft ripped the Win95 user interface from IBM's OS2. IBM ripped it off from the Macintosh. And Apple ripped it off of Xerox. I think it would be fair to say also that MIT ripped it off from Xerox too when they wrote X. Anyway, I fail to see how a unified user interface is a Bad Thing. And, I see just as many examples of UNIX terminology coming into the Microsoft documentation as going the other way round. About the only thing that Microsoft has refused to do is use the word "daemon" and "job" when referring to different processes under their OS, but it can be argued that this is a marketing edict. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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