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- From: mhesket@jax-inter.net (Mitchell Hesket)
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- Subject: Re: Linux vs. Win95...Your grammar sucks, Smarty.
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 14:42:08 GMT
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- rjn@pobox.com (Fidelio) wrote:
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- >ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate...) writes:
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- >>In article <4jp54b$ru6@digital.netvoyage.net>, jjs@digital.netvoyage.net (Joe Sloan) writes...
- >->But I like the direction Linux is taking much more than where windows
- >->nt seems headed. Openness and interoperbility vs proprietary, closed
- >->standards and an incessant push to eliminate choice for the customer.
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- >>Seems headed! Seems headed? Where have you BEEN the last ten years?
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- >Neither of those two exist for more than 5 years, so the point is
- >moot. 10 years ago a UNIX desktop system was just a dream - it was
- >serial terminals connected to a central big iron all the way.
- >X on a desktop UNIX workstation was just a dream back then. Dialup
- >networking via SLIP etc. wasn't invented in 1986 yet.
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- >In those 10 years technology has progressed a lot, unfortunately
- >human intelligence of the average USA male seems to stay halted at
- >a prehistorically low level. Most are afraid to use words of 3 syllables
- >or sentences longer than 10 words. It's a real wonder to me those apes
- >run the computer industry !!
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- >R
- >--
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- > Rob J. Nauta Linux: putting power in the wrong hands
- > rjn@pobox.com
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