Rich wrote:
> > ... All significant Internet development
> > since about 1982 has been done on Unix, with no exceptions (so far):
Bob Munck writes:
> To give just two counterexamples, Tim Berners-Lee did all of his
> development work on NeXTStep and Java was intended to supplant or
> replace Unix as well as Windows and AppleOS.
Uhm, Bob, don't take this the wrong way, but NextStep is a
UNIX-based operating system... A damn good one in some ways, too.
I've always thought it was a shame that more of the NextStep
concepts didn't flourish.
> I've come to believe that Rich really believes the fantastic
> things he says, and that he's not just making them up, but has
> heard them somewhere. He seems to have spent his entire career
> deep inside the Unix ghetto, not only ignorant of the larger
> world outside but unaware of its existence.
> > ... All you need is an old guy with a biplane and a few
> > sharpened telephone poles strapped underneath. ... dives,
> > letting them go poking through Unkle Billy's roof.
>
> Anti-Microsoft fanaticism may have its place, though I would
> suggest that it is not on a mailing list for web consultants,
> but this is beginning to cross over into something both sick
> and scary. The standard excuse of "I was just kidding" doesn't
> apply to this kind of thing.
Oh, get real. Frankly I'd rather not see that sort of comment
either, nor the heavy-handed parodying of the MS-Windows name(*). It
detracts from the conversation and it distracts us from the important
points. It also gives Microsoft apologists ammo they don't need, to
confuse the issue. "Sick and scary", however, is just a little bit
melodramatic.
Now could we all take this conversation somewhere a bit more
productive?
Steven J. Owens
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(* Although I do really dislike the way Microsoft has appropriated the
perfectly normal and general world "Windows" to mean their specific
product. It's MICROSOFT Windows, dammit!).
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