[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 10 April 2006 22:52, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:16 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 10 April 2006 20:35, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> > > I guess in the M$ sys vs Open Source sys, M$ does have something good,
> > > less code
> > > reuse which prevents crazy deps trees and simplifies installs for
> > > users.
> >
> > Less code reuse?  Yes, I remember well the days when all DOS programs had
> > to include drivers for every common printer - and heaven help you if your
> > printer wasn't one of the common ones.  That left you with a *very* basic
> > Epson setup.  The one and only thing I welcomed when I was eventually
> > forced to move to windows was the cure for this particular ill.
> >
> > And while we're thinking about code reuse, why does 'dll hell' occur?
>
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> save that one for a Windows list please.
>
It wasn't meant as a question, Craig.  Dll hell occurs, AIUI, precisely 
because there is shared code, badly written and badly controlled.

Anne
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