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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:55:27 +0100
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On 23/09/2013 08:00, in article l1oour$t7r$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Bill
Richards" <billrich@gmx.com> wrote:

> ...  There will never be
> a good desktop experience on UNIX/Linux (not that it bothers me personally)

OS X gives me a pretty good desktop experience.

> simply because thousands of small programs sloppily thrown together and
> relying on thousands of other sloppily written small programs don't scale
> and can't be bashed into a coherent whole. How much time must go by until
> the motley UNIX crew realize this isn't working?

Well it "hasn't" ( really?) been working for 40+ years and I don't see that
changimg anytime soon.  Strawmen (geddit?) are not a substitute for well
founded argument.

...

> If they spent as much time polishing their code as they
> do their silly communist license boilerplate we'd have quite a different
> situation by now 

"communist"?  Your're a teabagger, aren't you? 8-)

> ;-)

Was that *whole* post tongue-in-cheek?

-- 
Bill Findlay
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