NICHOLAS PETRELEY: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com, Wednesday, June 27, 2001

[David Poehlman]

I agree, it was a poor choice of words.  I actually see variety in the
way the os can be implemented since it can be directly interacted with
more easily than windows can.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: NICHOLAS PETRELEY: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com,
Wednesday, June 27, 2001


Ah, you see variety in how computer tasks are handled under linux, and
no
variety under Windows. Not sure that "variant" is the same meaning.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, David Poehlman wrote:

> in other words, we have much more flexibility with linnux in flavours
> and in the way it is set up and compiled.  windows is well, windows.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: NICHOLAS PETRELEY: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com,
> Wednesday, June 27, 2001
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David Poehlman wrote:
>
> > one thing we have going for us is that linnux is variant unlike
> windows.
>
> Huh? What do you mean, "variant?" This sentence makes no sense.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Victor Tsaran" <tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl>
>
> > MSAA for Linux is what we need!
>
> Gag me with a spoon.
>
> Please don't wish the failings of M$ on us. We don't need any such
> thing.
>
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