| From: | Rafael Vicar�a Alloza |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 18:55:51 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: The Windoze SDK |
Hello Sanjeev,
On Thursday, 28-Sep-00, 12:38:36,
<open@amiga.com> wrote about:
Re: AMIOPEN: The Windoze SDK:
> Hi,
> Maybe windoze will not be as efficient in running the SDK as Linux,
> but the Windows environment may bring in more developers. Few people
> have the time or resources to install Linux to just run the SDK.
IMHO, if the windoze environment can bring the kind of clueless developers that can't
install linux because of their ignorance about other platforms, with the
poor bad practices that the evil from Redmond has imposed and "standarized", we're
much better off without them. What kind of code will they produce? Have
they ever cared about portability, quality and security? Have they ever
known about portability, quality and security?
Yikes! I don't consider myself a developper at all, just an informed and
educated user, the last software I wrote was on a C=64 in BASIC in 1983,
but lately I've managed to install several versions of the free unices on my
two 68030s, just for the sake of learning. Of course, it was not all
pointing and clicking, it was a lot of reading books, FAQs, etc., and
making the right questions in the right places when you get stuck.
Come on!, all this whining because you have to read a lot of books
and docs to install Linux? You should try NetBSD instead. It's harder to
install and you have to do a lot of RTFMing in a much more scarce
documentation, but you do learn a hell of a lot in the process. Just for
the sake of your own education.
Moreover, the opportunity to run the same binaries on different platforms
will put in direct evidence which are the good ones and which are the
bad ones, technically speaking. And it will ultimately show the worst of windoze. But this will not
work for eroding windoze. Just look at BeOS, infinitely superior to windoze, technically
speaking, but not selling at all. Very sad. Bear in mind that they
"jumped ship" big time when they switched from PPC only to x86 only, and
embraced the nightmarish pc architecture. The huge switch in strategy
didn't make much difference in terms of sales.
What will happen instead is that the loads of "windoze developpers" will
blame Amiga/Tao for the lack of speed of the windoze SDK, instead of windoze, and whining
loudly and in masses to Amiga, to make the faster, making Amiga to waste precious
resources in optimizing the unpotimizable.
And last but not least, M$ can break the Amiga SDK with each release
pack, if they want to, as it seems they do with Samba every time.
Maybe the easiest solution to this would be to create another separate
mailing list for windoze only issues (openAmigaWin?), just to keep the very high s/r ratio (up
to now, fingers crossed) of this list. That will keep all of us focused
and undisturbed.
Just my opinion
> Sanj
> Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Claus Luethje wrote:
>> Of course, it remains my own opinion that this is a tremendously
>> wrong
>> and self destructive decision for Amiga Inc. I still think it's a
>> complete waste of commitment, time, money and resources that is
>> especially disapointing in light of the total lack of promised
>> legacy
>> Amiga support. But that's been said, too.
Best regards
---Rafa
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