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Fwd: Re: comparing OS bigots
In article <[email protected]>, Woofbert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>, Eric Remy
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[email protected]>, vinchenzo
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >I'll be brief:
> > >
> > >it seems to me that these folks break down three ways.
> > >
> > >Unix bigots are those who value stability and technical reliability,
> >
> > Umm, no, that would be us VMS bigots, thankyouverymuch. OS/390 bigots
> > as well, all three of them.
> >
> > Unix bigots value text files, su root programs and 47 seperate desktop
> > managers of which none can reliably cut and paste anything other than
> > text, but all can be made to look like the control panel on Star Trek.
>
> =:o What a shocking and amazing thing you say about Unix! I can't
> believe you said that! Which window manager can reliably cut, copy, and
> paste text?
>
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