Ho ho, flame on! :)
My completely annecodal experience with devs which prefer windows over
posix is that the former prods things until they seem to work and accepts
unexplained behavior far more readily than the latter. Do I *really* want
that kind of mentality in my database devs?
Anyway, I think you have the focus wrong. It's not: "run our software on
what we tell you to".... it's more: "we believe this platform is better
than others, so we'll write our free software for that. But if you want to
port it over to the platform of your choice, have fun doing that."
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Personally, I find the anti-windows bias that has been shown in this
> thread by some developers to be disappointing. Maybe it sucks to program
> in, and maybe it's not as stable as unix (though I don't put much water
> in that argument anymore), but the fact is there's still a LOT of places
> that are windows shops and a LOT of people who use windows more heavily
> than *nix. More important, the egotism of "If you want to use PostgreSQL
> you better run it on what we tell you to run it on" is certain to turn
> people off of PostgreSQL. It will certainly turn off windows developers
> who might have been interested in working to improve PostgreSQL now that
> it runs on windows.
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