On: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

[some-username → jmnicolas]

Don't you think that "ideological reasons" can be quite a good reason to do things?

Besides, following ideological reasons only means to value certain (other) aspects higher for evaluating the question how good something is.

Usually the term ideological implies (in my book) that a person is considering the greater good, and willing to take a step back in own convenience. That sounds like a nice person to me. Maybe you could spare some curiosity for their reasons?

[jmnicolas → some-username]

Ideology is all fine and well until you start to deviate too much from reality. Then you hit a wall.

Example : there are cases of babies dying because their parents refused to give them animal milk.

Be pragmatic : you don't want to hurt animals, OK, but why not raising a couple chicken to get some eggs ?

Fwiw, my servers are Linux, but my desktop is Windows (it's not for lack of trying Linux as a desktop).

[rbanffy → jmnicolas]

Sometimes it's because someone wants to leverage the colossal investment already made in VB code and being able to run and maintain it on Linux is better than being locked to Windows anyway.

[pjmlp → rbanffy]

On the other hand, I have seen companies locked to specific Linux distributions, so....

[rbanffy → pjmlp]

That's odd. They must have done something impossibly wrong.

[pjmlp → rbanffy]

Yeah, like using commercial software for Linux, depending on distribution specific tools, non upgradable drivers, strange things.

[xmonkee → jmnicolas]

Bad example. Noodles ARE vegan.

[zeckalpha → xmonkee]

Many are only ovo-vegtarian.

[jstewartmobile → jmnicolas]

I think there's a little more to it than that, but just a little...

A most uncomfortable truth!