Reply to post: Re: Dear gods, if we say it, it must be true

Re: Dear gods, if we say it, it must be true

"RUN ONLY ON WINDOWS. End of story."

and there are NO competitors for these things?

I've heard of large industrial equipment, that use things like Win 98 for the control software, that's still operational. So yeah, it's not surprising. However, that doesn't justify the argument that there are no Linux (or even OSX or BSD or whatever) alternatives, even more cost effective ones.

Given that I've already written two (yes two) device control prototypes using a $50 Android slab [in one case, controlling via a custom web server; in the other, just the 'droid application via bluetooth], it might not hurt to look a bit further into the future...

(As a reminder, Android is also Linux)