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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1958)12/16/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 2617
 
True. GPL favours the Phd or gov't, institution employee who can contract out fix-this-thing-so-it-does-this service. Really, software is almost always specialty use stuff in enterprise places. All enterprises demand special task automation or special inout and output modes for interaction. Each organizations database and business function is different and require different computing and computing skills.

Oen package fits all stuff fits Microsoft's business model. But all to often you find the packages are slick and extremely limiting at the same time. In some cases you need line numbering, in some cases you need global search and replace with regular expressions that seek line length, EOL and BOL characters and can group type characters in innovative ways. Unlimited length editors and edotirs that do columns or embedded format commands are efficient tools. Don't see MS for this kind of thing unless you want to pay through the nose.

I just decided one day that MS continuing to obsolete code and make it so PC tools or Norton utilities or Lotus did not work was too much for me. And too much money. Ultimately Linux is much cheaper if you want to do real computing. Linux is the ultimate professor's computer, the ultimate small do-it all machine. Harder to use? Definitely, but not harder to use at a high level of skill and computing power.

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