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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!towncrier.osf.org!not-for-mail From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@osf.org> 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: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 11:56:24 -0500 Organization: The Open Group Lines: 30 Message-ID: <32FA0D38.41C6@osf.org> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dctol$13si@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dev-sgi.osf.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156405 comp.os.linux.networking:67415 comp.os.linux.setup:95692 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5886 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2283 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52003 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265932 bill davidsen wrote: > > In article <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org>, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kaleb@osf.org> wrote: > | bill davidsen wrote: > | > > | > 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. > | > | Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about? > | Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications? > > Had you read the rest of my post it would have been clear. What makes you think I didn't read the rest of your post? > With > Windows you have a choice of similar apps from multiple vendors, > while with UNIX you typically have a choice between zero and one > which will really address the problem, and maybe a few more which > could be used to do the job in some fashion. Who cares? You completely miss the point of application development on Unix if all you want is word processors for your Linux system. The vast majority of Unix applications are for vertical markets. Look at all the apps GE uses in-house to build nuclear missles!