why Unix?

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
>
> At a company we were using MS Transaction Server. I went around and
> asked my bosses why. Nobody knew. I asked what features of it we need.
> Nobody knew, and they didn't knew even what the MTS was supposed to do.
> The fact the company had bought it was a pure marketing trick from MS'
> part. To continue the anecdote: my boss at the time woke up every
> morning, came in early, checked out the new code - from Visual Source
> Safe (another useless make-believe product that has never hold a candle
> to even the, um, obsolete cvs that uses equally obsolete text files),
> built it, deregistered each of a dozen objects from the graphical MTS
> console, and then registered each again. This was the only known way to
> make our updates work.

The registration aspect of MS programming technology has got to be about
the most broken concept I've encountered in Windows.  It's abstruse, brittle,
and incredibly error-prone.  In my brief exposure to .NET programming, this
feature had me tearing my hair out more often than any other.