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To: ShadowAce
>> I wonder if there'll be a push for new (and hopefully non-unix/linux) OSes now. >
> Why exclude the world's largest OS (in terms of usage)?

Because I hate, loathe, and despise the C/Unix philosophy.
It's seriously a pile of shit; and I'm saying this as someone who's a bit of a language geek.
There's this thread which compares Oberon to C++ and touches on the topic very well.
There's this critique of C++ (I've just started reading it, but so far it's good). Then there's always the amusing Unix Hater's Handbook, which details frustrations but manages to illustrate a good number of UNIX's design-flaws and problems with its philosophy.

It already has users, experts, and a lot more applications than anything else out there right now.

So? In all three of those categories Windows has more. So, it's obvious that those aren't the criterion I'm using.
Besides that, I'm not sure that Unix/Lunux is more secure on the PRISM-front — because that's collecting the data in whole-pipe method, any machine that data goes through can be compromised.

11 posted on 06/27/2013 11:52:49 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Because I hate, loathe, and despise the C/Unix philosophy.

OK. What "philosophy" do you like, then?

In all three of those categories Windows has more.

Incorrect

13 posted on 06/27/2013 11:57:25 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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