Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:39:33 +0200
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> boringly babbled:

On 2024-08-19 10:40, David Brown wrote:

On 19/08/2024 09:37, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
There's no doubt that non-technical issues have had a big influence on
which OS's or types of OS have succeeded, but you seem to have something
specific in mind.

>
I think the main reason is that we do not pay the actual costs of
software developing. OS, compiler require huge investments. Vendors
never passed these to the end users funding developing from other
sources. That effectively killed the market. Free software only
aggravated the situation. In effect it is akin to the socialist
production method which always kills quality.

You are a comedian arn't you. Its not a good idea to criticise the quality
of OSS when at the same time advocating for Windows, an OS thats had more
security holes than the entire cheese production of switzerland.

Initially an ability to trim the system and sometimes to patch a driver
was a huge advantage Linux had over Windows NT.

Linux can also load and unload drivers on the fly unlike Windows which AFAIK
still requires a reboot each time.