On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:21:54 +0100, karlheinz klingbeil
<karlheinz-> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
>And by the way, even the OP asked about installation on
>Linux, i'd like to know where there is a registry in
>Linux ?
)
see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/registry.html
The registry was tool designed to:
1. make it very difficult to move a application to another machine.
This was to discourage piracy and encourage people rebuying software
they already owned.
2. make the system as slow and unreliable as possible to encourage
purchasing upgrades with new copies of the OS.
Given that the Linux folk had no financial stake in those two goals,
they did not use a registry.
Installation is thus a robust process under Linux.
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