On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jonas Otter wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:59:46 +0100 (BST), ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
I am very sorry to hear that.
I am sure he won't get the media hype that followed the passing of Steve
Jobs last week, but I am also sure that dmr had a much greater influence
on the sort of computing that I am interested in than Steve Jobs did.
:-(
Sad indeed.
Seeing that OS X is in some sense Unix-based, I would say DMR won...
It's not in "some sense", it *IS*. It just happens to be saddled
with a
really weird window manager and a one button mouse. :)
g.
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