Re: [Slightly OT] Philosophy (was Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?)

Ron,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Sam made an "I" statement:
> > I would also like to point out that some of the most bright persons I 
> > currently know in the computer field are people who had such early 
> > experience with computers (Bill Kendrick anyone? The guys a coding 
> > machine... ;-)
> 
> Humph.  Yet again, that's just not true.

Woah, hold on ...

> Did Kernigan, Ritchie,
> Ken Thompson, Bill Joy, RMS, Steve Wozniak, Gary Kildall, shoot,
> *anyone* from the MIT AI Lab, the TMRC, Stanford AI Lab, Linux,
> Alan Cox, Donald Becker, or even the people who designed and program-
> med that PDP-11 or your Atari get exposed to computers at an early 
> age?

Sam, are these people you currently know in the computer field? :)

Ben
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