From truebluecajun@yahoo.com Mon Aug 13 17:09:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: M.E.Landry@student.tcu.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 00:09:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 95313 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 00:09:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 00:09:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smail1.is.tcu.edu) (138.237.135.165) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 00:09:36 -0000 Received: from tcu.edu (MEL8984-A.STUDENT.TCU.EDU [138.237.162.46]) by smail1.is.tcu.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Q12D7APY; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:12:29 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: *nix stuff Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:09:40 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081319094000.00820@tcu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: truebluecajun On Monday 13 August 2001 05:22 pm, you wrote: > until Cowan's announcement a few minutes ago, the > nixists have said that it couldn't be done even to nix, let alone to a > multiplatform. Maybe tomorrow, now. No, Robin said HE couln't make Logflash work on *nix. There's a difference between "I can't do it" and "It can't be done." > Second, there is no shame in making a program multiplatform. > Third, stereotyping *nix users as "cultists" (you said it, see below) > is not only morally wrong, but extremely inaccurate, as stereotypes > usually are.> > > but people keep insisting on making things > only for this paltform or that. I have been arguing they should support > all the platforms that are likely to be used -- and especially MS, since it > is actually the most used. OK, if I remember correctly, Robin said he uses Win98 as well as LInux. CMIIW, but I think he wanted a version of Logflash for *nix _as_well_as_ Windows. I don't think he's asking for a monopoly here. >Yes, I called them cultists and will defend it > on literal grounds -- and, to an extent, on figurative ones as well (read > some of the things that they say about other platforms, for example -- and > compare with Koresh on ordinary Christians).