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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!SoNet!uknet!str-ccsun!not-for-mail From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 23 Apr 1996 15:46:57 +0100 Organization: University of Strathclyde Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4liqh1$j5f@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <3176D081.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> <4la318$ah3@sidhe.memra.com> <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22198 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:808 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3471 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3326 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18048 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46946 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > >In practice, we reaaly have two groups of people: those who >burn their free time playing with computers and those who >don't. As Douglas Adams stated in "Triumph of the Nerds", a UK channel 4 program(sic) concerning the rise of computers and the associated, em, "culture" in the last two decades; "A nerd is someone who uses the phone to talk about phones" I thought it described myself quite well! :-) > They tend to be into it for the challenge Yup. To roughly paraphrase the above, they use computers for the sake of using computers, as opposed to using computers as "merely tools" or to "get the job" done. One of the great things about Free UNIXes is that they allow people like me to spend free time using computers for the sake of using computers in an excellent development environment. -- Neil Clark Transparent Telepresence Group <http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>