Re:You miss the point; but so did Katz
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As a matter of fact, the principles of the Masons are close enough to this "Order of Reason" that it really beggars belief to claim that they did NOT model it directly on said organization.
Actually, all Masons must believe in some form of higher power, a Supreme Architect, or they can't be a Mason.
Any Technocrat professing such belief would very quickly be up for reprogramming.
Another very big reason to use TeX is that your documents are still accessible 15 years later. I have some papers that I wrote in TeX in 1984. I can run TeX on them and still get the same beautiful output. It looks much nicer on the HP 4000N than on the LN01 and there's no risk of fire. How many others can say they have typeset documents they can read 15 years later?
The reason that Windows is considered splintered is not because it is 64 bit but because they are using a different code base. Considering Cutler's practices, it's unlikely that the code bases will be merged.
On the other hand, Linux is pretty much all one code base and those parts that aren't are being merged actively.
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As a matter of fact, the principles of the Masons are close enough to this "Order of Reason" that it really beggars belief to claim that they did NOT model it directly on said organization.
Actually, all Masons must believe in some form of higher power, a Supreme Architect, or they can't be a Mason.
Any Technocrat professing such belief would very quickly be up for reprogramming.
You forgot a relevant link: LWN acquired by Tucows.com.
Another very big reason to use TeX is that your documents are still accessible 15 years later. I have some papers that I wrote in TeX in 1984. I can run TeX on them and still get the same beautiful output. It looks much nicer on the HP 4000N than on the LN01 and there's no risk of fire. How many others can say they have typeset documents they can read 15 years later?
Hmm. I bought an AT&T 6300 for $1400 in '88 or '89. Ran Unix just fine. This was the system that was one step down from the 3b1.
On the other hand, Linux is pretty much all one code base and those parts that aren't are being merged actively.