Re: Text processor

[jason whizzird net]

> I am not laughing. I think they might just do it and make a lot of
> things pretty hard for a lot of people: look what they did to the
> Netscape crowd. But no, I am not wishing for the commercial colonisation
> of the Linux world; I am wishing - and I know this is not just wishful
> thinking- that the process of developing user-friendly applications gets
> speeded up. It's not that people like me just came into the
> Linux-sphere, it's that the world outside Linux -and inside Linux as
> well- is moving pretty fast. The user-end of the Linux community, and
> I'm starting to grow roots there, is expecting a lot from the
> programmer's side. Maybe we shouldn't expect much more, but then again,
> you guys opened the source up, you guys offered the OS to the whole
> world: the desktops, the window-managers, the offices... now, naturally,
> the world is beginning to pay attention and we want more than just
> text-processing toys. Until I can write at least one dissertation
> chapter under Linux, I cannot take Linux as my OS of choice, as much as
> I'd like to. And I would really like to. If all I did were
> programming... I could do that on just about any text editor bundled
> with Linux and there's tons of these.

a coworker of mine did his masters thesis entirely in vi. he used TeX, which is
standard on most linux distros.


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E-Mail: jason@whizzird.net
Date: 19-Jun-99
Time: 17:08:04
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