[rescue] GNU != Unix (was: PC v. PeeCees? (was: IBM hard

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jul 14 22:16:16 CDT 2002


On July 14, Koyote wrote:
> >   Sure they have.  But this is a slightly different problem...it's
> > software written specifically for Linux, not for UNIX...and [sometimes
> > implicitly] advertised as "portable" or "UNIX-like" software.
> 
> I've got no issues with people writing linux only code. And just because Linux got popular or pedestrian doesn't make it 'orrible. (lots of other things do, but it has some winning points.)

  I agree 100%.  I don't dislike Linux because it's popular...I
dislike it because it's "unclean".  And even that's untrue...I really
don't dislike it much at all.

       -Dave

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