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To: uu who wrote (14052)1/28/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
[ What Sun is doing is to give the base framework to the developers who can use to build their own products.]

TRUE!! My husband is a hacker hobbyist. He writes code for the fun of it. If he likes what he has written, he will post it to free share-ware.

Linux amused him for quite awhile. Now he is busy writing code for his USRX Pilot.

Guess, I do the same thing with recipes. I'm always changing them. If I had to follow a recipe exactly as it was written, I'd never cook anything because inevitably I would always be missing an ingredient that the recipe required.

Instead, I just take whatever is in the frig and improvise. Also, it's easier to improvise than to follow a recipe--once you have learned the basics.

As far as Microsoft goes, my husband dislikes Microsoft products for many reasons. I have heard him complain that he is often angry because a Microsoft programmer thinks he has devised the best solution for my husband's problem as set out in the Windows operating system.

My husband gripes because he has to waste a lot of time to get around taht procedure that the programmer has written into Windows.

Dear Addi, I like the way you compare hackers to cooks. I'd never thought of hackers in that way b4.

Thanks,

Mephisto
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