[Sussex] What path does one take

[Geoff Teale]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:46 +0100, Ian mu wrote:

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> In other words, Linux may be *that* good, but I don't believe the
> users are ;).

That's a very valid point - but one key difference between setting up
apache and setting up IIS is that apache (generally) doesn't try and con
you into believing that this is a trivial task that just anyone can (or
should) do.

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The windows server product range (and indeed their programming product
range) is blighted by a series of big lies - they market their products
(as do Apple) on the idea that the fundementals of computing are hard,
but if you use their tools it's all easy.  In reality the opposite is
true.  Nearly all of the complexity in computing is in the huge stack of
software between the metal and the user.   They're obfusticating what's
really happening (making the situation more, not less, confusing) and
leading people to believe that the job is done when the wizard is
finished.

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