Windows vs. Linux

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-08-02 04:42:31, Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> I never said "I would have known it better". I just said that IMO it
> was a bad design choice ;-)

Well, and I question your qualification to judge that. 

In order to say that, you would have to know the reasoning, would have to
put it in the historical context and would have to be able to explain why
that reasoning was wrong at the time. A design choice is not necessarily a
bad choice just because it turns out that some 30 years later there is a
similar common product whose creators made a different choice, and now
programmers have to cater to both. With the same reasoning one could say
that the Unix creators should have used the VMS (or any other existing)
form.

Gerhard