Linux-Advocacy Digest #333, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Jun 00 16:13:04 EDT
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Re: What UNIX is good for. (Tim Palmer)
Re: What UNIX is good for. (Tim Palmer)
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From: Tim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: What UNIX is good for.
Date: 25 Jun 2000 15:40:53 -0500
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 22:43:08 -0400, Colin R. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tim Palmer wrote:
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>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >Logo is available for Linux. I have ucblogo-4.6-2. Now, MicroWorlds
>> >> >might be a problem.
>> >>
>> >> Photoshop is avallable for Windows.
>> >
>> >
>> >Why pay $700 when you can get the functional equivalent for free?
>>
>> ucblogo is not the functionall equivillant of Photoshop.
>>
>
>And who said that it was? You claimed that Logo was not available for Linux,
>and I pointed out that it was. What does Photoshop have to do with this?
>
The GIMP isn't the functionall equivillent to Photoshop either.
>
>Colin Day
>
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From: Tim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: What UNIX is good for.
Date: 25 Jun 2000 15:41:03 -0500
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:36:14 -0500, Nathaniel Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tim Palmer wrote:
>> >No. It was Winmodem. Should I blame Linux for not supporting such.
>>
>> Yes. Windows supports all hardwhare just fine. Your problem was a Linux problem not
>a problem
>> with the modam.
>>
>
>I've been saving this one for the right moment. Sit down at a Mac with
>a Windows98 CD and try to install it. Since you can't install it, that
>must mean that Windows 98 is just a gigantic piece of shit right?
No it means that Macs are peaces of shitt.
>This
>is exactly the logic that I see from you, and it makes no sense. You
>can't blame Windows for not running on the Mac just like you can't blame
>Linux for not running on hardware it wasn't designed to run on.
>
>> >
>> >Colin Day
>> >
>> >
>
>Nathaniel Jay Lee
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