Motivation of software professionals
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From: Richard Bos on 1 Mar 2010 16:14 Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote: > James Kanze wrote: > >> Neither Linux nor g++ were even usable, and emacs (by > > That's pure fantasy. > > I used a couple of Linux distributions in the early nineties, and they worked > better than commercial UNIX variants. You're mad. I used Solaris to run an Informix database system not ten years ago, and I would not have run it on Linux for the world. The business depended on that thing: no database, no newspaper. Linux was simply Not An Option. That system's successor is run by someone else, but apparently he (or rather, they) agree with me: it's Oracle, not Informix, but still running on Sun systems. The FTP server, meanwhile, ran on Linux. That was fine, for that purpose. But don't come to me saying that it's better than the commercial alternatives. > I used emacs and knew many who used vi back then. They were solid. Yeah, but have you ever used an _editor_? No, a real one? Richard
From: Richard Bos on 1 Mar 2010 16:14 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 1 Mar 2010 16:21
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 |