Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

In article <1158920548.088179.327140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mydejamail@xxxxxxxxxxx (mydejamail) writes:

If Microsoft is shitware why is Bill Gates the worlds richest man and
in a position to donate more to charity than the combined earnings of
all the pure Linux/Open Source companies?

Go back to Marketing 101. Quality and sales have nothing to do with
each other. Remember that old saying "could sell an icebox to an
Eskimo"? Bill Gates is a marketing genius - but that does not make
him a programming genius.

He simply had a product that served many companies and people when
Unix didn't and Linux didn't exist. Is it a crime for him to have
taken advantage of the opportunity that he saw?

No - but he came within a few million dollars of being found guilty
of the crime of denying people any alternative. Monopolies are found
bad only if you can't afford to buy out or destroy the competition.

I am not unaware of the problems that result from closed software -
open source is simply to grant software users the ability modify
software sold to them just as with manufactured goods the only
difference that software can be copied easily where as manufactured
goods can't.

But why should enshrining this concept in a license result in the
coming together of a lot of people who share such a dislike for
Microsoft's financial success? I am sure Microsoft wouldn't engender
so much hatred if they were not so financial successful.

It's not, as others have pointed out, the financial success. It's the
fact that they have inflicted some truly shitty software on the world.
Even worse, they've convinced the masses that this is the right and
proper thing to do. Millions of machines lock up and require a reboot,
re-install, or re-format on a regular basis - indeed, some professional
shops make it a policy to re-format and re-install every six months.
And they see nothing wrong with this! Now think of how many millions
of man-years have been lost to this sort of thinking. If you wanted
to sabotage a society, what better or more subtle way could there be
than to quietly sap everyone's energy in this way. And _that_ -
not his financial success - is Bill Gates' crime against humanity.

IBM, Sun, HP and a host of other companies are also profit making
companies, but the likes of you don't seem to have the hatred of
them you do for Microsoft.

QED.

Perhaps Bill Gates should donate a lot of his charity money to the
development of open source software and Linux and that would make
a lot of the likes of you happier.

It'll never happen. He knows which side his bread is buttered on.
Yes, he's currently set up a charitable organization - but that's
just PR. He'll never give back more than a tiny fraction of what
he's cost society.

Linux advocacy isn't done any favours by such attitudes. Look in
any of the Windows oriented forums and you will rarely see any
such attitudes as displayed.

No, they come over here to troll.

But anyway, to drift somewhat back on topic, I had never heard
of "man hier" before this thread either. There's a lot of good
information squirreled away in all sorts of places, and unfortunately
there are not enough pointers to it. Discussions like these will
have to serve for now.

Charlie's First Law of Documentation states: "If you can't find it
in the manual, it isn't documented." Note that this says nothing
about whether it's actually there, just whether you can find it -
which is why I see the decline of good indexes as a Bad Thing.

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