Mac OS X v. Linux

[Michael Shigorin]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:25:04PM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> I have to disagree that emacs is user-friendly without lots of
> experience/training/practice. Skills learned in GIMP don't
> translate to emacs whilst they do to Text Wrangler (that's the
> advantage of a well designed GUI).

If you only knew how *horribly* wrong you are... GIMP is natively
scripted in Scheme, Lisp dialect; and Emacs is nothing but a Lisp
virtual machine.  So here we go -- (moderately) advanced skills
from GIMP *do* translate to Emacs. :)

> Part of my reason for making that statement is to wake the
> Linux fan(atics) up to the fact that FLOSS is not the
> be-all-and-end-all of software.

Pff.  Software isn't everything in this life anyways.  So yes.

> It's a tool.

It can be more versatile tool than any other... especially when
used by a creative someone.

> If MS makes the best tool possible are you not going to use it
> simply because you can't see the code. If you don't and it
> would give you an advantage, you're a fool.

Hm, you'd better try to convince some sec agency on that.
And it seems there *are* people on sec teams here.
[...]

So maybe don't be fanatic in argumentation in your turn? :-)

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