On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:30:38AM -0400, Silvan wrote:
But it's true that there's a whole realm of software nobody is likely to
develop for Linux because of the diversity. I had to sit by and watch my
father build a network of Windows NT boxes because I couldn't write and
THOROUGHLY test the software he needed for the cash registers at his
workplace.
This was supposed to be the argument for Java. Target Java, meanwhile
opensourcers dink with the underlying platform. In the meantime Java
gets close enough to the hardware that it's basically like running a
VMWare image, only running JavaOS instead of Windows.