From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 2:34:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55B337B436 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 02:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fATAY5x02911; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:34:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <026501c178c1$62f8fa70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Mike Meyer" , References: <004801c17872$98e47b40$6600000a@ach.domain><017f01c1788c$8cb71d90$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15365.52562.394957.602907@guru.mired.org><01fe01c178a1$001d1be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15365.58639.39658.89837@guru.mired.org><022901c178ab$8b12cb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com><001401c1789c$f4ea1f60$6600000a@ach.domain><021f01c178a9$43b2c500$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15365.63510.713899.607362@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:34:06 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > Unix kept getting more and more expensive. Last > time I checked, a source license ran to $70K ... The cost of a single systems programmer, in other words. Not very much compared to writing your own OS, and you can't get source licenses for any other OS at all (almost). > 2001 chose HAL because the letters are > one further down the alphabet from IBM. That is an urban legend, according to the author of the novel and screeplay. > Cutter chose WNT for the same reason, except he > started with VMS. As I heard it, his reply when > someone finally asked him about it was "What > took you so long today." That's not exactly a confirmation. More urban legend. > If you can do the job the easy way, why do > it the hard way? Because you're a geek? > ... but there's no reason to hide the > alternatives from them. Linux is not a viable alternative to Windows for non-IT users. No version of UNIX is. > If someone has complaints about the Windows GUI, > it only makes sense to point them at a group that > can provide them with a desktop that lets them > use alternatives to that GUI. If someone has complaints about the cost of gasoline, it only makes sense to point them at a group that can provide them with vehicles that use alternatives to gasoline. > Yes, and we went through it and didn't find > anything that didn't exist for FreeBSD. I didn't find anything that _did_ exist on FreeBSD. > For Illustrator, it's "applix -gr" ... No. For Illustrator, it's "Illustrator." I don't want something else that lets me draw; I want something that is 100% compatible with Illustrator. The same is true for all the other applications I've listed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message