Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>>>> Somehow, I always find it amusing how many FOSS programs assume Windows is 
>>>>>> basically how it was in Win98 and completely fail to do the right thing.
>>>>>   Well, you can always demand your money back.
>>>> Sometimes you're extremely predictable.
>>>   Well, if the argument is valid, why change it?
> 
>> You're predictable in that you make that argument even when nobody else is 
>> arguing. :-)
> 
>   I don't think that presenting an argument is the same thing as "arguing"
> (ie. to contend in oral disagreement).

You're very predictable in that you present that argument every time someone 
says something about FOSS.

In any case, wouldn't you think it rather lame if (for example) Mono only 
read text files that had lines terminated in CRLF? Or if you frequently ran 
across large complex Linux programs that assumed "~fred/x" should expand to 
"/home/fred/x" regardless of what was in /etc/passwd?

They should at least stop putting misinformation in the documentation like 
"you can't delete open files in Windows" or "Windows doesn't have links". 
That's just plain wrong. The minimum would be to phrase it as "we don't open 
files in a mode that allows them to be deleted while open" and "we don't 
support links in Windows".

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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