Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:43:17 -0400 From: Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Unix Haters Handbook Message-ID: <20060601144317.47402556@hydrocodone.org> In-Reply-To: <447F0062.8060302@daleco.biz> References: <447E9540.2020003@io.dk> <200606011357.11990.aren.tyr@gawab.com> <447F0062.8060302@daleco.biz>
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:57:38 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > Aren Olvalde Tyr wrote: > > Hi > > > >> Anyway, wanted to share my discovery. I know many knows this book, but > >> perhaps many also don't. > > > > Very amusing/interesting. I knew of the "Unix haters" journal/e-mail list, but > > didn't realise that a book existed. > > > > Aren. > > I'm afraid I've not time to RTFT today (at least not > ATM), but I've got to ask a few questions of this list: > > 1. FreeBSD is not UNIX, by definition and agreement. > So, does the book really apply? Will another lawsuit > loom large on the horizon if it does? Does SCO have > personnel who "check out" related OSes to determine whether > they meet the appropriate "UNIX-hating" criteria? (ref. > POSIX). Technically FreeBSD has more right than SCO UNIX to be called UNIX, Legally who cares laws and computer science have really not ever mixed. > > 2. Is 'UNIX-hating' an acquired taste/skill/disability? > Is it possible to be stupid/ignorant/naive enough to not > hate UNIX? Could be a form of retardation. But that's my arrogant Elitism. > 3. Should we hunt down the author, install FBSD on his > machine(s), chant "make install clean" repeatedly whilst > we transliterate his work into groff, Tex, Docbook and LaTEX > via the stuff in ports/converters? Perhaps he's never run > a modern OS .... I've seen the web site and read it before. to me it looked like a windows guy who was paid to write down everything he was thinking about Windows and change the names. > > Just trolling, Just Biting, > > Kevin Kinsey -Allen
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