Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:30:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm not sure about this one.  My odds-on favorite answer: Picture some
> > M$ hackers telling their supervisor they are working on some GCC
> > enhancements.
> 
> But how do you explain the fact that S. P. Jones uses Latex and cygwin?

Easily.  He is the hacker, not the supervisor.

It's pretty evident to me that Microsoft and the free software coders
of the world have more in common than either has with, say, IBM.  The
licensing enforcement departments understand each other perhaps even
better than did Hitler and Stalin.  Some of the world's best coders
are in there, and the rest of us are out here.  :-)

-- 
John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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