You've given your government their very own Enabling Act. Now you are beginning to deal with the consequences -- and in future they are going to be rather more weighty than a bit of fuss about copyright. Good luck -- you'll need it!
No, there isn't. And yes, there should be. Application-level version control is no substitute. An undelete facility should be built into the file system; and arguably so should version control. The irrevocability of "rm" is one of the main weaknesses of Unix.
Surely someone else remembers the time when software which included
an editor often came with the option to use "Wordstar keys" -- a lot of
Borland stuff, for instance?
My personal favourite was WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, but I wouldn't use it
now -- it's nvi for me.
Oh, Gruber stands definitively refuted! We all know THREE is a
statistically significant sample population, right?!
Fucking
hell. But never mind the obvious fallacies; the really annoying
thing about you latter-day Linux fanatics is that a few years ago
those of you who were then out of diapers were just as enthusiastic
about MS Windows...
Well, you start off well in that first paragraph, but after that, well...,
first off, you could read the article...
I've been using
linux for 10 years; this doesn't make me "elite" or anything, but it does
make me, rightly or wrongly, mighty pissed off when I get criticised for
drawing attention to a very perceptive article about -- hey! who would
have guessed? -- how Free Software is less than perfect (hint: nothing is).
I like, even love, Linux; but that's not the point. And the time is
long passed when it was understandable to take every criticism of Linux
as a personal insult. This article raises some very germane points,
and (rightly, in my view) criticises the somewhat superficial view of
the user interface that was championed by Raymond's earlier article.
That doesn't mean that everything it says is gospel; but for God's sake
don't imagine that you're doing Linux any favours by jumping on your high
horse every time Free Software is criticised.
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Did they have "sneakers" in Mark Twain's day?
You've given your government their very own Enabling Act. Now you are beginning to deal with the consequences --
and in future they are going to be rather more weighty than a bit
of fuss about copyright. Good luck -- you'll need it!
I very much doubt whether Richard Stallman hopes to develop an
OSS-based BIOS. He'll be wanting a Free Software BIOS. They are
not the same thing.
Yes. What's your point?
The Unix Programming Environment. A true classic.
No, there isn't. And yes, there should be. Application-level
version control is no substitute. An undelete facility should be
built into the file system; and arguably so should version control.
The irrevocability of "rm" is one of the main weaknesses of Unix.
Does format C: still work?
Actually, the "but" above referenced gunning down a suspect in the street...
"Innocent until proven guilty is great... but" -- the raison d'être
of every police state.
From the news today:
"Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it."
I have no further comment.
So, that's a list of 21 things *not* to do...
> You left out that it is also smaller than emacs
Well it could hardly be *bigger* than Emacs, now could it?
I must confess, I have strayed from the One True Path, and use an X program, xv, to view images... Can I still be saved?
- pdksh is a superb shell
- screen is a first-rate window manager
- nvi is a fine editor
- lynx is a good browser
- snownews is a decent RSS aggregator
- And
/usr/bin contains most anything else you might require.
I can't see how anyone would need anything more...Oh. So he didn't even do that. I stand corrected. Whatever; I use free
software anyway.
Its name?
Surely someone else remembers the time when software which included an editor often came with the option to use "Wordstar keys" -- a lot of Borland stuff, for instance?
My personal favourite was WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, but I wouldn't use it now -- it's nvi for me.
Gosh! First post! What a shame I have nothing to say...
No.
"If not, why not?"
Because the linux world is not monolithic, and we prefer it that way.
An actual funny post on /., and of course it isn't modded up "Funny"...
Fucking hell. But never mind the obvious fallacies; the really annoying thing about you latter-day Linux fanatics is that a few years ago those of you who were then out of diapers were just as enthusiastic about MS Windows...
I've been using linux for 10 years; this doesn't make me "elite" or anything, but it does make me, rightly or wrongly, mighty pissed off when I get criticised for drawing attention to a very perceptive article about -- hey! who would have guessed? -- how Free Software is less than perfect (hint: nothing is). I like, even love, Linux; but that's not the point. And the time is long passed when it was understandable to take every criticism of Linux as a personal insult. This article raises some very germane points, and (rightly, in my view) criticises the somewhat superficial view of the user interface that was championed by Raymond's earlier article. That doesn't mean that everything it says is gospel; but for God's sake don't imagine that you're doing Linux any favours by jumping on your high horse every time Free Software is criticised.
I don't run OS X at all. Guess you haven't done your homework either
-- surprise, surprise...
Tell them what? That OS X beats a shoddy imitation of MS Windows hands down?
"just that it needs to be done, not overlooked."
Well, the point is that it's *not* being done. On this Gruber and Raymond are agreed. The question is, why not?