Text 2865, 68 rader
Skriven 2005-08-02 07:42:32 av Maurice Kinal (1:340/401.1)
   Kommentar till text 2863 av Jan Wagemakers (2:292/100.19)
Ärende: About C=64, DOS, GNU/Linux, ... 
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Hey Jan!

Aug 02 07:59 05, Jan Wagemakers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JW> Indeed, in the current situation there is not that much live in OS/2. 
 JW> Sad, because it was (is) an interesting OS.

I think was, was being 10 or more years ago.  Linux evolved way faster then
OS/2 could cope with and even IBM abandoned OS/2 for Linux seeing the growth
and potential therein.  Heck even Cray came out with a version of Linux over a
decade ago.  MS and Sun are the only two that haven't seen the light.  Mind you
 I doubt MS can or is able to see the light.

 MK>> Yes but even freedom as it pertains to opensource is less
 MK>> costier then going the more customary commercial development
 MK>> route.

 JW> Replace the word commercial in the above sentence with 'proprietary'. 
 JW> It is not because software is commercial that it can not be free(dom) 
 JW> software.

Okay.  Sorry about that chief.

 JW> See also 
 JW> <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial>

Right.  I have seen that and simular along the journey.

 JW> [WAR's]
 MK>> True but sometimes there is information even sometimes when
 MK>> there was no information intended.  In English it is called
 MK>> 'reading between the lines'.

 JW> We also know that in dutch (tussen de regels lezen).

That works for me too.

 JW> But, hey, that is the whole point. When I point to the strong points 
 JW> of GNU/Linux in a positive way by saying for example "I like 
 JW> GNU/Linux because it is free(dom) software", then people who are 
 JW> reading between the lines know that I don't like MS\Windows because 
 JW> that is proprietary software.

Okay.  Except that in my particular case it wouldn't hold since it isn't
because it is proprietary but rather because it is useless.  I used to have a
proprietary compiler(s) for DOS way back when.  Didn't care much for them so I
tried djgpp simply to stay in tune with gcc which was what I preferred.  Thus
moving to Linux when I did was far easier for me then it was/is for most
people.  The Solaris experience didn't hurt any either.  The move then was
better and simpler at that time then jumping onto OS/2 would have been.  Hence
my comments about OS/2, although I did try it out first before deciding to go
straight Linux.  Then it was a simple matter of finding a distribution and
Slackware won.  Debian was my second choice but I found it more restrictive and
anal then Slackware.

 JW>>> Yes, at <http://www.janw.easynet.be/eng.html> you can see
 JW>>> how James Vahn has explained to me how to use it.
 MK>> Sounds great.  I'll have to check that out.  Do you still hear
 MK>> from him?

 JW> Isn't he on this list?

He abandoned ship quite some time ago.  I could hazard an educated guess since
he did say in an admin echo as to why but that would be negative towards a
certain group of people that I don't care to fued with anymore.

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