Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1166 gnu.misc.discuss:583 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNUclear Warfare Message-ID: <4799@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 20 Dec 89 04:16:30 GMT References: <2558@flatline.UUCP> <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4ZW1ijS00WBKE1qh5C@andrew.cmu.edu> <4774@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 36 Good lord. Let's not agree in a hurry. We'll have nothing to talk about. > *no* saints - we're all scoundrels to some degree or another :-) > Better to hang your hat with a scoundrel like rms than with scoundrels > like Sculley and Jobs. Also, Gates is no saint, either. I choose not to hang my hat with any scoundrels if I can help it. > > I have a spreadsheet. It's called SC. It's freely redistributable. It's > > also pretty limited by comparison with commercial versions. > Did you write it? Nah. > Did the authors not understand how to write a > spreadsheet (not an uncommon thing in PD software, i suppose)? Did > they not have enough time, interest, slack? I think they made it do the things they needed done, and left it at that. > Assuming there is something wrong with coercion in the first place, Well, I've occasionally been accused of being a libertarian. But then I've also been accused of being a right-winger. I dunno. > > Them's fighting words. Remember: 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. > Depends on what you consider hard work (ie. perspiration) I *like* to > debug programs, Yeh, but how about writing documentation? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"