[arachne] Re: OS advocacy

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>> No, I am not happy with the constraints of Windows and DOS, nor with the
>> ones of Linux; that was the prime reason for starting my project. Of
>> course, I would never expect that someone who never used DR-DOS
>> understands that.

> And who would you be referring to? I used DR-DOS before it was OpenDOS,
> and then I used OpenDOS, and then I used DR-DOS after it wasn't OpenDOS
> again. I used it from the command line, and I used it to run PC-GEOS on,
> and then later it's successor, GeoWorks... and then its successor,
> NewDeal. Matter of fact, I never ran Arachne on MS-DOS, but only DR/Open.
> Of course, if you had been around this list... actually, the original
> list a while... you wouldn't have made such an ignorant statement.

YOU tell me that anyone who does not like Unix either has not spent
enough time using it or simply does not like good operating systems, and
then you dare to talk about ignorance?!

I simply turned *your* argument against you by stating that you probably
do not know DR-DOS, since you are using Unix. Think about this for a
while before answering again.

>> Nor do I understand why someone who knows DOS would
>> prefer to use a clone of an OS of the late sixties instead. But like you
>> said, to each his own.

>  LOL!  I see you host your site on Apache.  'Nuf said.

??
And what would you mean by that? It is not my server the site is on, and
I have no control over the software they are running.

And I definetely would not replace DR-DOS with *any* flavour of Unix
on any of *my* machines just to be able to run Apache on it, if that is
what you were thinking of.

I learned from first-hand experience that most Linux users apparently
cannot stand someone using a non-Unix OS, no matter which one, and will
do just about anything to "convert" him to "their" OS. You have only
confirmed this. Well, like I told you before, I already know Linux and
therefore it will not work.

If the Linux developers were actively trying to improve Linux and work
on eliminating its weaknesses, then perhaps it could become almost as
good as DR-DOS. But since they are too busy with praising it, this will
probably never happen.

Udo

-- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de

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