Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Johannes Weiner <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:17 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> 
> To be honest, I couldn't give the slightest about w32.  It's a pile of
> crap that should have never seen the light of day, all political issues
> left aside and I, FWIW, would not consider it when designing software.

Such arrogant nonsense can only be forgiven if it's spoken out of
utter ignorance.  Last time you took a good look at a Windows system
was probably in 1998.  Wake up! a lot has changed since then.
Nowadays, w32 systems don't fall short of Gnu/Linux in any aspect:
stability, usability, user-friendliness, etc.  And the current trend
in Gnu/Linux systems to mimic the Windows UI, feel, and touch bring
more and more the worst parts of Windows to Gnu/Linux systems, to the
degree that in a very near future they will be indistinguishable,
anyway.

And if you are interested in OS architectural design, then Linux is
simply boring: a huge monolithic kernel that came straight out of the
dinosaur 70-s.  Whereas modern Windows systems are in this respect
everything the Hurd wanted to be: microkernel with many services
running in user space.  Too bad it is under-documented (but then who
has ever heard about, let alone seen, good internals documentation in
the Free Software world?).

Posix is only one way to go, it is not the only way.  Saying I don't
care for anything but Posix is like sticking to a single programming
language: you will be a poorer programmer, because some paradigms
evade you completely.

But I'm quickly getting off topic (not that this prolonged discussion
was on it, btw).