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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: 6 Feb 1997 15:35:49 GMT
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
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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. 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.
People who think {vi,emacs}+{groff,TeX} are a word processor should
not quit their day job to sell UNIX word processing to the masses.
The same is true for sc as a modern spreadsheet.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
-Dave Welch