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- Subject: Re: tlug: what's wrong with `cat <<EOT | smail -t\'? :-)
- From: Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:15:13 +0900 (JST)
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Hi all, On 29-May-98 Felix Morley Finch wrote: >> You emacs types. Sheesh. All those shift keys. > > Nothing shifty about Emacs. It's CONTROL we want :-) OK, the last thing anyone on this list wants is a Emacs VS vi VS ? flame fest, so ponder Eric S. Raymond's latest 'Homesteading the Noosphere' which points to a new area: "This trend has interesting implications for the near future. In early 1998, Linux looks very much like a category-killer for the niche `free operating systems' -- people who might otherwise write competing OSs are now writing Linux device drivers and extensions instead. And most of the lower-level tools the culture ever imagined having as open-source already exist. What's left? Applications. As the year 2000 approaches, it seems safe to predict that open-source development effort will increasingly shift towards the last virgin territory -- programs fornon-techies. A clear early indicator is the development of GIMP <http://www.gimp.org>, the Photoshop-like image workshop that is open source's first major application with the kind of end-user-friendly GUI interface considered de rigeur in commercial applications for the last decade." What's next - an office suite that doesn't make the same bloatware mistakes of M$? Perish the thought.... -------------------------------------------------------------- Next TLUG Meeting: 13 June Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30 Featuring Stone and Turnbull on .rpm and .deb packages Next Nomikai: (?) July, 19:30 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 03-3275-3691 -------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor: PHT, makers of TurboLinux http://www.pht.co.jp
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