Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sun Apr 21 23:41:13 2002

On 22 Apr 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:

> > etc. I've yet to see even one piece of software that would be of
> > serious use to me that runs under UNIX. I know that I could force
> > myself to use Netscape,
>
> How can anyone do anything useful with a computer without the
> following? Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, dvips, the Bourne shell for scripts,
> ghostview, gimp, xv, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Perl, C, various useful
> UNIX utilities (e.g. tar, awk, nawk, grep, sed, dc, ed, diff, cal, at,
> bc, od, lint, etc.), to name a very few of the extremely useful
> programs that run on UNIX systems.

You'd be surprised at the variety of work I can do on an S/390 with *none*
of these. Just because they are useful, doesn't mean that's all there is.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 23:41:13 BST