OT: Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?

Andrej Marjan amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 7 04:38:28 UTC 2009


On October 6, 2009 05:39:55 pm Christopher Browne wrote:

> It seems to me that we're going in absolutely the wrong direction with
> both "office software" and web browsers...  In both cases, they
> violate the "Unix Philosophy" in *ALL* of the ways described above.
> 
> The tendancy to hack modules onto Firefox is just making this *worse.*

Firefox in particular, like Seamonkey before it, isn't in the Unix tradition 
-- it's the spiritual descendent of Emacs. Really: Emacs is a lisp VM that 
specialises in text manipulation, and Firefox is a javascript VM that 
specialises in webby networky stuff.

To wit: https://bespin.mozilla.com/

No comment on OpenOffice -- that train wreck makes MS Office look good. As a 
troublsehooting aside, on my current install i have a ~/.ooo3 settings 
directory, and OO.o processes tend to be called soffice.bin -- references to 
Star Office are still hard coded all over the place, though there are fewer 
with every major release.
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