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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.207.105.50!prodigy.com!darkstar.prodigy.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 5 Feb 1997 20:24:11 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156110 comp.os.linux.networking:67251 comp.os.linux.setup:95450 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5865 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2236 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51873 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265630 In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about Microsoft | desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and energy if he | likes, but unix will die without applications. UNIX doesn't have applications. You look for one product from one vendor to use UNIX, you have a large choice with MS. You don't (sanely) buy an o/s and then look for apps in the business world, you find the app and then buy the o/s, and then buy the hardware. You look for the platform which gives you the apps, and stay with it. Its name is MicroSoft, unfortunately. I like UNIX variants, but when I want to write something of any size I go to Word, because it's a better tool than anything affordable on UNIX, and because people want you to use it. The only two formats I have seen widely used for electronic submission are troff (then) and Word (now). You can find academic journals which take TeX, and magazines that know your WordPerfect will read into Word, where they want it, but they are not the mass market. I still write stuff in troff using my own version of almost-emacs, but I don't expect to use anything but the hardcopy, and if I had a good revision control for Word, I'd be using that more (maybe in Office 97). | But Unix' achiles heel is that its compatability is only at source | level. Write everything in JAVA ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well." -Dave Welch