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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Commercial alternatives to perl?
- In-Reply-To: frank@iris.ansto.gov.au's message of 22 Jul 92 00:38:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Jul22111941@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <CKD.92Jul15191117@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul15.233640.16814@news.eng.convex.com>
- <CKD.92Jul15213524@loiosh.eff.org> <136@quark.ansto.gov.au>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:21:52 GMT
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- Frank> == Frank Crawford <frank@iris.ansto.gov.au>
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- Frank> Consider how much time you would have to spend reading news if
- Frank> your organisation's computing was based entirely GNU products
- Frank> including PERL.
-
- Well, hm, a large proportion of our computing (nearly all the Unix-based
- stuff) is being done with redistributable-source software. Our mailers,
- news software, windowing system, editor, scripting language,
- conferencing software, ftp server, text search system, AppleTalk
- protocol stack, and information retrieval clients are all from the net.
- We have a *lot* of perl code for stuff, too.
-
- Even a fair amount of our non-Unix (Mac) "critical" stuff is freeware, like
- Disinfectant and Eudora; we get much faster updates of the (free!)
- Disinfectant than of the ($$/yr) Virex.
-
- Yes, I have to spend a lot of time reading news as part of my job, both
- for support/information reasons and because I help field queries in our
- newsgroups. It is deemed worth it.
- --
- Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
- point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
- to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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