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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <908@attc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:47:39 GMT
References: <9011232028.AA24515@islanders.>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <9011232028.AA24515@islanders.> fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes:
>
>Besides...sigh..., the key word here is "foisted".  Foisted does
>NOT mean invented....(you know how much email I got explaining
>how X got "invented"!...sheesh!)
>
>I am not denigrating the efforts of the MIT people at all.  I applaud their
>tremendous efforts, it's the marketing style of the big 
>(formerly-Unix-hating-but-now-Unix-loving) companies that I didn't like.
>
   Aparently, you DO like marketing styles of some other companies ...
   'cause thay want to accomplish something *totally* different: sell
   more of their gear as oposed to those you don't like ...

   So should we talk now about how UNIX has been "foisted" upon the
   computer *users* by the *miniscule* of UNIX proponents by calling it
   a *de facto standard* at the time when nothing was further away from
   a "standard" than UNIX was  ?

   Or does it belong into an entirely different News Group (as the entire
   previous discussion) ?   (Suggest: comp.flame -).


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