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Microsoft helps Vim charity
voidmain:
Well, they surely are at hotmail on their BSD boxes. They probably have some *NIX boxes at HQ. And I know they still use some IBM AS/400 machines.
Calum:
they will have a lot of *nix machines. know your enemy and all that.
even the free software foundation had and probably still have proprietary *nix machines for years even though they are pioneering Free software.
everybody who's anybody in computers uses *nix for something these days.
[ November 27, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
DC:
/* Behold! It's back! */
<mode id=FUNDY>
Vim SINNERS, Repent while you can! This is a clear cut of the alignment of Vim with the SATAN GATES!
Save your soul while you still can! Join the Church of EMACS!
I pray for all you Vim users to our saint and prophet, the holy RMS!
</mode>
Calum: of course fsf has proprietary *nix boxes. How can they write replacements for the damned stuff if they don't have it?
voidmain:
Well they certainly don't need, nor have needed proprietary *NIX boxes for quite some time. Whether they do or not I don't know. I would be willing to bet that a few of the mailing lists might have some proprietary NIX boxes in the mix, but only because this type of stuff is so open and hosted by whoever wants to host it. If the UNI has an old Solaris box sitting in the corner doing nothing why not use it as a news archive? Of course they could throw Sparc/Linux on it. The whole point of Free software is it can be used anywhere, even on proprietary systems. If that wasn't the point there wouldn't be a GCC for Sparc/Solaris, for HP-UX, for AIX, for Windows, etc.
LorKorub:
Man....
I just read this. Horrible news! Vim was my favorite editor.
Oh well, looks like it's apt-get install jove time.
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