Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their
platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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The three examples cited are not the same. IOS is a dedicated software system that the end user can not add new applications to. Windows works fine on a variety of systems at first, over time it works less and less well, please re-install. Linux comes in over 20 distributions with over 20 filesystems. FreeBSD runs Yahoo! and a number of other commerical extremely high volume sites.
The author's appeal to "cant we all just get along" does not notice that we are not all trying to do the same thing with our systems. You can drive a nail with the butt end of a screwdriver....you can use Windows for a critical application, but why use the wrong tool?