Dennis Foreman wrote: > Harold, > Since you admit to having to play with addresses, could you PLEASE not send > postings to me twice. I am now getting ONE from the LIST and ANOTHER direct, > for YOUR replies to my postings. > > Since you deprecated my use of your personal email address, I have no > recourse but to post my reply here. After this, I will remain silent, use > what's here and take my lumps.
No problem. Your message was unclear as to whether it was intentionally sent off-list. You seemed to blame Outlook for your troubles later in the message, so I went ahead and cc'd cygwin-xfree. > > If freeware was supposed to stop the incompatibilities across multiple > incarnations of UNIX, it has failed. Code that works on one Linux fails on > another (see postings to pthreads & LEDA lists), code that works on LINUX > fails on SunOS or AIX. I don't see any improvement to the end user. My days > as an active programmer are over. The option of contributing assumes I know > something about the internals of "UNIX". I don't. And I don't want to > either. I am now taking time to enjoy my family (as you want to enjoy > yours). I do however occasionally need to delve into the "UNIX" environment, > so there are some tools I use that may not be commercially available or > which I am directed to use by others. > With open-source and free-software you have two choices: 1) Take what you get 2) Don't take what you get Unless, of course, you are willing to contribute. As for knowledge of how UNIX works... I had no knowledge when I started working on this project and I still have hardly any knowledge. However, I am able to read the docs and the source to learn what I need on a daily basis. Anyone can easily contribute to this project in less than a week, if not a single day. > Will the REAL UNIX please stand up? There are MANY arguments for/against > any specific version. I don't really care. I just want code that's easy to > use, works and runs as documented. Look what happened to OS/2. Great > capabilities, lousy documentation, hard to use by novices. Look at MSWins: > fair abilities, decent (not great) docs and REALLY easy to use for novices > doing common things. Look who has the market share! How many PC's come with > ANY version of Linux as the default? > A valid observation, but you forgot one thing: we are not paid to do this. > BTW, since Solaris came first, why not emulate what they had? And make it > better. > [Smoke billows from Harold's keyboard as he quickly rewrites 20 years of open-source and free-software to be compatible with Solaris, because Dennis Foreman thought it would be a neat idea.] Nice idea, but you will have to work on that one yourself. > regards, > D. J. Foreman, Ph. D. > Dept of Computer Science > Binghamton University > website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman Harold
