Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:15:52 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1018392719.4d73cd@mired.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <002601c1dc2e$aa7e6120$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr><3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com><20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr><009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15530.6987.977637.574551@guru.mired.org><012601c1dadb$104d5100$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.2846.277278.29276@guru.mired.org><005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.27851.19169.720598@guru.mired.org><001301c1db55$7c883950$0301a8c0@NITEDOG><009201c1db5e$41b1baa0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.33743.830853.456500@guru.mired.org><00c801c1db62$baa46b20$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.36674.46968.714882@guru.mired.org><003e01c1db8d$88a745e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15532.50244.102425.795045@guru.mired.org><001201c1dc29$6503eb10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15532.55566.545491.30092@guru.mired.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mike writes: > Only people who are actually interested in > improving their work environment so they can > get more work done care about such things. Or people who don't actually have anything else to do. > Apple didn't copy it from Smalltalk, but > they did get it from Xerox. What Xerox product did it come from, if not Smalltalk? > No, you used words that gave your spin on thing. > I expanded those to the truth. Why do my statements constitute a "spin," if yours represent the "truth"? > But there are similar numbers of applications > available for Unix ... But they are not applications used by desktop users. > ... and virtually none of them run on Windows. Windows is not a server. > Let's see: I listed the hardware I have, > you haven't listed any that is in common use > that I can't use on FreeBSD. Nikon scanners. That's why I bought a Windows XP machine. > I gave you an objective paper on window > management, you haven't got one. I have objective papers on photography and chess, and I suspect you don't. But they are just as irrelevant to this discussion as window management. > You refuse to provide an application list ... I provided a very long list once before, if you recall. > So why don't you do that, and not bother those > of us who are differnt from the majority, and > act surprised and upset when your biases turn > out to be false for us? It's entertaining to rattle the case of the angry young males. They never catch on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?002601c1dc2e$aa7e6120$0a00000a>