[OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

[Dermot Doran]

An interesting, if somewhat confusing, post, Richmond.  However, I
would ask you to read a few more books on the holocaust or read the
Nuremberg trials for a bit more background information on what really
happened with Jews, Romani, and "undesirable" people in the Nazi zone
of influence.  I found it just a little bit too simplistic and glib.
However, if I have incorrectly interpreted your remark, please, please
accept my excuses for this reproach.  I think that everybody should be
free to make the statements they chose to make so that ideas are in
the open and can be promoted, analyzed and generally reacted to.

Somewhat off topic, I would recommend that everybody on this forum
take the opportunity to read Edwin Black's book on IBM and the
Holocaust.  If you're in computing it is an interesting read.  If you
are into OLAP or Data Mining it is a "MUST" read.  I have seen very
little critical reaction to it which leads me to think that it is a
bit too close to the truth for comfort.

One other thing, Richmond.  When I signed up to this forum I did not
expect to see such a wide range of interesting topics and views.  Keep
it coming!

Cheers!!

Dermot.

On 11 May 2012 19:22, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have finally worked out why I think thinking people (!)
> prefer Mac OS or Windows:
>
> For the very same reason why buckets of people want to
> go back to the Communist state here in Bulgaria.
>
> Linux involves a vast number of choices:
>
> 1. Choices about Desktop environment; WIMP, HUD, Nix-but-contextual-menus,
> Freaky, and so on.
>
> 2. Choices about how to access programs: Panels, AWN, Cairo Dock, etc.,
> etc.,
>
> 3. Phil Lewer, Jan Brewer, Harry Hawkins, Hugh Davy   Philly Whitpot, George
> Pausley, Dick Wilson, Tom Cobbley and all.
>
> And, for why do I find Linux delectable; mayhap because many years syne
> (well 36 to be exact), I ate a delicious plate
> of rice-pudding in Widdecombe after 24 hours out on the tors of Dartmoor.
> And, possibly the saddest thing of all, is that I suspect
> very few in the computer programming fraternity/sorority will even
> understand the connexion between those remarks and point 3.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> 3 weeks ago I was standing in a shed with 2 lambs under my arms feeding them
> from bottles (at Horton-in-Ribblesdale), and some
> wag (isn't there always one?) said to me "Why are you doing that?", to which
> I replied "I care!" (frankly, the farmer had had about
> 105 Spring lambs; and he had dug them out of the snowdrifts; of which 50 of
> them had been saved by sheltering under their dead mothers' carcases), to
> which, said wag had remarked "I thought you said you were a teacher and a
> computer programmer." at which point I turned to the lambs and saw that they
> were comfortable and full of milk. The fellow was an idiot.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> The vast majority of people do NOT want choices; they want comfortable
> predictableness.......
>
> However, awkward s*ds like me, believe that that is exactly what meant that
> the Jews and so on, walked obediently into the
> gas ovens of Nazi Germany.
>
> Of course comparing the Virus-Hell of the most popular family of computer
> operating systems on the planet
> with the Nazi holocaust elevates the former to a place it should not enjoy,
> and degrades the latter to a position
> which diminishes it significance in a way which is hugely dangerous.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> While Linux may NOT turn everybody on Ding-an-Sich.....
>
> It is worth recalling what happened in Britain when, quite suddenly, the
> Archimedes computer (running RISC OS)
> cut its own throat by getting into bed with Apple (remember the Xemplar
> episode?), and everything changed, and
> those teachers who could not transition very quickly from RISC OS to Windows
> 95 were in the sh*t.
>
> --------------------------
>
> What has this got to do with Runtime Revolution Livecode?
>
> Quite a lot.
>
> 1. The world does not change smoothly, nor predictably.
>
> 2. Richard Gaskin's recent posting anent Linux could not be more apposite.
>
> 3. RunRev made a big mistake when it stopped releasing engines to allow
> standalone builds for any systems apart from
> Mac, Windows and Linux.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Friday night rant as usual is for free. Love, Richmond.
>
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