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- Subject: Re: Linux vs. Win95...Your grammar sucks, Smarty.
- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 96 23:19:40 GMT
- Organization: Washington U.
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- In article <4k5vmq$eh0@alterdial.UU.NET>, mhesket@jax-inter.net wrote:
- -rjn@pobox.com (Fidelio) wrote:
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- ->ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate...) writes:
- -
- ->>In article <4jp54b$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.
- -
- ->>Seems headed! Seems headed? Where have you BEEN the last ten years?
- -
- ->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.
- -
- ->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 !!
- -
- ->R
- ->--
- ->~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~
- -> Rob J. Nauta Linux: putting power in the wrong hands
- -> rjn@pobox.com
- -
- -
- Why don't you people babble somewhere else! Talking about a com technology
- being outmoded after 10 years! Is it so amazing to you morons?
-