[Ilugc] Re: Another storm (XXX and Sex Education)
- From: prabhu_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Prabhu Ramachandran)
- Date: Fri Nov 26 17:12:20 2004
"CB" == Chandrashekar Babu <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
CB> Sriram Krishnan writes:
>>
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
[...]
CB> author hasn't heard much about Mac OSX, nor would he have
CB> chanced upon Xandros, Ubuntu, SuSE or Mandrake desktops that
CB> are in existence today. The days when UNIX-like operating
CB> systems were all command-line and user-unfriendly have long
CB> gone.
Actually the general statement that UNIX-like OS's made zero inroads
into user-friendly GUI's is so wrong. Any SGI user would tell you so.
In fact the kind of integration and sophistication that IRIX had way
back then is something you'd be hard pressed to find today. Agreed,
SGI boxen of yesteryear can't be called "PCs" (you could call them
"workstations") but the general blanket statement on UNIX is
completely wrong. It seems to me that Joel equates UNIX to the freely
available UNIX versions.
cheers,
prabhu
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