XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: tom_shelton@comcast.invalid   
      
   Homer wrote on 12/24/2010 :   
   > Verily I say unto thee, that Tom Shelton spake thusly:   
   >   
   >> I've never heard of a granny that would want to setup a builds system   
   >> on windows - unless she is a developer or a build manager.  The fact   
   >> that you would even suggest that a normal granny would even consider   
   >> doing such a thing is completely laughable.   
   >   
   > It's not about what people /should/ do, it's about what they /can/ do   
   > more easily.   
   >   
   >> The only reason linux systems come with build tools, is that it has   
   >> been the common for software in the *nix world to be distributed in   
   >> the form of source code - that is not the case on windows systems, and   
   >> is likely to never be the case.   
   >   
   > Which doesn't alter the fact of GNU/Linux having that advatage.   
   >   
      
   Which has never been in dispute.  Sure, it's easier to setup for this   
   stuff - at least the framwork of the system.  But, the original quote   
   GREATELY exagerates the difference.   
      
   To imply that it doesn't take a substantial amount of knowledge to know   
   how to use those build tools properly in either environment - windows   
   or linux - is laughable.   
      
   >> In the windows world, the only people that care about building code   
   >> are geeks and developers.   
   >   
   > People in the Windows world don't care about quite a lot of other things   
   > too, like security, efficiency and freedom. That's hardly a glowing   
   > recommendation.   
      
   Nice change of subject.   
      
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   Tom Shelton   
      
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