From pycyn@aol.com Wed Aug 30 11:34:35 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32040 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 18:34:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Aug 2000 18:34:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r20.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.162) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 18:34:33 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.15.) id a.bc.9c1c299 (3948) for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:34:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:34:26 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Just in case you're interested To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-08-30 11:15:39 EDT, xod writes: << But maybe it's time you upgrade to Unix! Our velvet rope isn't price: good Unix is $free! >> At the risk of setting off an e-mail forest fire, I should note that "upgrade" is tendentious at least and that the real cost comes in space and time and the pain of finding moderately adequate replacements for all the things that work just fine now. When a new computer comes with unix and the usual battery of utilities, then I might consider changing over -- for political reason even if not convinced that any real advantage followed from the move. for now, convenience outweighs politics (don't it always though).