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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,to.rde
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 19:56:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.195610.15594@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Oct27.194455.22924@mo.hobby.nl> <1992Oct30.035230.3223@ksmith.uucp> <1992Nov2.194146.20882@mo.hobby.nl>
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- In article <1992Nov2.194146.20882@mo.hobby.nl> hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) writes:
- >There is hardly any free software for MSDOS (except for
- >the ported GNU stuff). I mean `free' as in Free Software
- >Foundation. Source code is essential to that. Read the
- >GNU Manifesto.
-
- Then based on this criterion, there is hardly any free software for
- unix, either, since if it's source code you could compile most of it for
- either OS platform, and all such *FREE* software would then be software
- that would be portable to *ANY* platform.
-
- Then again you've obviously never strolled thru the PC-SIG libraries to
- even *MAKE* such a ridiculus statement, and while I'll agree much of the
- MS-DOS stuff is Shareware, There is also a hell of a lot of PreCompiled
- Freeware, which costs only the time to find it and move it onto your
- box, AS WELL AS a TON of dos based source code, much of it in venerable
- TurboPASCAL and TurboC.
-
- >A combination of GNU emacs and TeX is an excellent (and IMHO
- >a vastly superior) replacement for something like WordPerfect.
- >I know of at least one commercial site where this is used daily
- >for business correspondence and all kind of papers. But don't
- >start a religious war on that.
-
- Of course it is IMHO being the key word here. Our Humble opinions don't
- mean a whole heck of a lot to the vast majority of folks out there who
- like pushing arrows with a rat either.
-
- >I'm definitly not a technoweenie. I consider myself more
- >of an end user. Fed up with unfixable bugs in commercial
- >software I am trying to make up my mind whether to use
- >postgress or ingress for database applications.
-
- I wish more of my clients were like you. Unfortunately they have no
- desire to learn anything that requires opening a book.
-
- >>I don't know what direction Linus wishes to go, but I just can't devote
- >>the hardware to it full time, without being able to run the stuff I
- >>already have, free or not.
- >
- >Yeah right, you still use wordstar for CP/M!? ;-)
-
- Nope, Never did. I used PIE/TEXT from the Software Toolworks. Hey I
- like Text Processing systems, Unfortunately my clients prefer something
- without a learning curve. <sigh>, and this I must also keep on my
- machine in order to be able to answer trivial questions about it, and
- thereby continue to make a living. Under Unix I use EMACS. I like
- EMACS, I like vi. The people I work for won't use either one.
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