[NCLUG] 'we have met the enemy, and he is us'

[J. Paul Reed]

On 15 Oct 2003 at 09:15:15, Dennis Clark moved bits on my disk to say:

> "geekware, by geeks, for geeks" and is somewhat hostile to the
> average person that just wants to run software that ISN'T M$ based
> and doesn't want to be a Linux environment specialist.  One of the
> worst is the compiler setups.  I should not need to be a compiler
> specialist to set up a development environment for coding on one
> platform or another.  

What "average person" is going to be installing a compiler?

And besides, have *you* ever tried to install Visual Studio? If you think 
"rpm -i"'ing a few GCC RPMs is difficult...

Later,
Paul
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