Re: registration request

Russell Nelson <[email protected]> Tue, 20 May 2003 09:41:50 -0400
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Greg Black writes:
 > On 2003-05-20, Laurent Bercot wrote:
 > 
 > > Every time I look at Unix, I can't help but wonder how such brilliant
 > > conceptual ideas could lead to such crappy software as the tools that
 > > come with our Unix systems.
 > 
 > Every time I see a remark like that, I wonder what planet the
 > writer comes from.  My Unix systems have a plethora of brilliant
 > software, frequently with multiple implementations, and they
 > just work year in and year out -- no other widely-used system
 > can claim the same.

You are talking about what is.  Laurent is talking about what could be.
They're not the same thing, so you come to different conclusions.

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