From: Richard Bos on
Seebs <usenet-nospam(a)seebs.net> wrote:

> I think it may be done occasionally. Certainly, if I had contractual
> penalties for downtime, and my choices were Windows or Linux, I'd
> run free software. :P

If I had _that_ choice, I'd not have signed the contract.

Richard
From: Lew on
Lew wrote:
>> I used emacs and knew many who used vi back then. They were solid.

Richard Bos wrote:
> Yeah, but have you ever used an _editor_? No, a real one?

Sure. emacs and vi. They're real, or are you suggesting I was hallucinating?
For that matter, MS Notepad is a real editor. I certainly would never
imagine such a one if I could help it. My chisel works real well on pebbles
for cuneiform editing, too.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war>

Nice try.

--
Lew