[NTLUG:Discuss] Any open source success stories?

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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Daniel Hauck wrote:

> I'll second that.  I've got developers where I work and even in my family
> that are rather shy about Linux or any non-Windows environment.  One VB
> coder even went so far as to say that MS is his bread and butter and that he
> wouldn't feel right abandoning it.  Bizarre...
> 
> There is still hope for my older brother as he still plans on learning how
> to code for GNOME but he's still working on learning C++...and now he's
> considering this C# as well.
> 
> I remember the old DOS world.  What I remember about it most strikingly was
> how primitive it has always been.  My first "OS" was OS-9 on the Color
> Computer.  Multitasking, multiuser, pseudo-windowing...all in a 64k
> environment though at some point I had it up to 512k.  I rather miss that
> old stuff, but the hardware just wasn't powerful enough but for the power
> that was present in that old 2MHz box, it ran circles around PCs of the same
> time period.  If only there was a TCP/IP stack on the platform back then...
> *sigh*
> 
> Anyway, so abandoning OS-9 in favor of the more commercially viable
> DOS/Windows platform was a hard thing for me to do.  Linux restored me.
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  Unfortunately, Motorola bought OS9 folks, and they have lost it.  We
found that it was very difficult to get anything fixed from either them or
Moto.  That OS is on the scrap heap of history, as far as I am concerned.  

  It was a very good one in its day, however.

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