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Saturday, April 17, 2004


The Evils of Linux


Microsoft may have a point. Are Linux empires built on the ideals of a negative aspiration? Windows XP is better than what came before it. And it is better at so many things.


Linux is a good software development environment. That is why we have Open Source. Windows costs more to develop for, it takes a larger team. But some things simply work on more platforms with Windows. And XP does not crash. Not really.


But, when text processing is required, Linux has a strong, free toolset for website development and hosting. Or it doesn't. Depending upon what experience is cut from, but when it is cut from success, it is usually because the tools did not stop the job from being done.