Quoting Henry Ficher, from the post of Fri, 13 Dec:
> >How should I choose my choices?
> >
> >This site may be called "ReligiousWars.something", and will enjoy a
> >high rating from its first day (because people CARE about religious
> >wars). So contrary to typical Dot.Com initiatives, this one has
Chazal said: "Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma".
What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack?
Open Source offers almost everything we need.
Actually, much more than we need:
- You need a text editor?
- No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take one.
- You need a deskto
Eli Marmor wrote:
The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one.
We have a problem of rich men: too many choices.
Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is
that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and
you are left with two. That's wh
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is
> that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and
> you are left with two. That's what happened in the desktop env (anyone
> still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?)
>
> It's a good th
Eli Marmor wrote:
Chazal said: "Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma".
What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack?
Open Source offers almost everything we need.
Actually, much more than we need:
How should I choose my choices?
The first choice I make is the distribution. The advanta
Quoting Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> - You need a text editor?
> - No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take one.
hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list:
Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against Linux
and
Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just wish to have a site that will allow me to choose the right tool
> for my needs.
There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when
someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was
told to figure out first wha
On 2002-12-13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list:
>
> Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against
> Linux and Windows is a good text editor.
>
> ;-)
I've heard it in a shorter version: (even better IMO
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when
> someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was
> told to figure out first what it was he wanted to do with (in?) C. The
> OP said he had a very good idea what he wanted, and that
Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can't just "harvest" details from the Internet and build a check
> list;
> You should try all of the choices in order to get a decision.
> This is the only way to decide which of them is really the easiet.
> And which of them is really the fastest.
> Bu
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Eli Marmor wrote:
>
> >The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one.
> >We have a problem of rich men: too many choices.
> >
> >
> >
> Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is
> that when you have 10 options for a lib
On 2002-12-13, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?)
For the record, yes: at home my main wm currently is fvwm2.
And a collegue of me at work is actually using twm..
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Eli Marmor wrote:
> PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22
> annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any
> year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more
> than 100 PER YEAR). These comparisons covered a
Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sat, 14 Dec:
> > PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22
> > annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any
> > year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more
> > than 100 PER YEAR). These compa
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