| From: | Daniel Robbins |
| Date: | 5 Aug 2000 at 17:47:31 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: To Windoze or Not to Windoze (was: reply to Gary) |
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:52:14AM -0700, Gary Peake wrote:
>
> Something that has been missed in the posts here is this very fact.
> The new Amiga OE is host ignorant. Write once, run many means JUST
> THAT!
I totally agree with you. I imagine the vast majority of list readers
agree with you -- I think that everyone is starting to delete these
"No Windows SDK" messages. These messages are totally insane and
misguided, and they normally involve some kind of "blanket" judgement
labelling all Windows users as idiots, which I consider
"techno-bigotry". Some people unable or unwilling to grasp the fact
that Windows should be supported -- they're stuck in the 80's-style
Amiga vs. Mac vs. Windows debates.
Some other untruths -- Windows *is* stable if you happen to be running
Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 6a. I've never had it
crash, and I've been using SP6 since it came out. Of course, Win95
and Win98 are flaky, and 2000 still has quirks. Linux has quirks too.
The anti-Windows SDK argument does not make sense at all. It's
totally misguided. And I happen to be someone who is very involved in
the Linux community -- having my own Linux distribution and being a
regular columnist for the IBM developerWorks Linux Zone. Let the
bigotry end!