"Get the Facts" Right, Microsoft...
Usually I don’t pay attention to Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” style propaganda, but this one was so silly that I just couldn’t pass by when pointed to it.
Basically, there are two WMV screencasts “comparing” the easiness of installation of Perl and PHP on Windows and Linux. Notwithstanding the fact that the Linux screencast uses a three-year-old version of Ubuntu and the makers apparently didn’t hear of Synaptic and the Applications menu, what is it supposed to prove? If anything, that it’s easier to type a single command to “apt-get install” a package and get it working out of the box, than to run an installer (predownloaded from a third-party site and hopefully prescanned for viruses before the screencast begins) and making them work with IIS through a configuration window.
Or if it’s supposed to be aimed at Windows users to begin with (“I’d rather click Next into oblivion and then use the command line anyway to set up directories than just install everything with this unintuitive apt-get thing!”), who are they hoping to convince? If anything, it ends up looking like an advert for Linux instead.
Nice job breaking it, heroes.
Thanks for pointing this one out. It really makes you wonder whether it was made by someone who favours Linux, but happens to work for Microsoft :)