On Friday 07 February 2003 02:56 pm, John Goerzen wrote: > Levi Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri Feb 07 13:10 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > >> My position is that all operating systems suck. (Hard to argue with > >> that.) It's our job to make them suck a little less. > > > > I presume you have heard of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie? > > Nope, care to explain? > > The origin of that was when I was working at a local ISP. Our > unofficial motto was "All ISPs suck. We just suck less." And I think > that's the way it is with a lot of things. One of my pet peeves is > mail readers. I want to be able to read my mail anywhere without > having to use a web reader, and see all my changes from any other > computer. A few mail readers can do it, but they all have horrendous > bugs in other areas. So I wrote OfflineIMAP > (www.quux.org/devel/offlineimap). Now reading mail sucks a little > less in my corner of the universe. > > And so it goes with operating systems. They're all crap :-) The only > real OS I've seen with a really compelling design is Plan 9, but it has no > applications and is non-free, so there you go. > > The nice thing about Free Software is that what I do to make my little > corner of the world less crappy can help out over there, and > vice-versa. That's why our corner smells a lot nicer than Microsoft's :-) > > -- John
I do believe he is refering to a song called every os sucks. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-