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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 09:36:29 GMT
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>> On 5 Apr 1997 05:36:54 GMT, Giao Nguyen <grail@functional.com> said:
GN> : Wait a minute man! You make it sounds like UNIX is only for people
GN> : majoring computer science. I don't have a degree in
GN> computer science
GN> Count one biology major in as a Unix weenie. Discovered it my
GN> freshman year in college and can't seem to ween myself off of
GN> it.
Count my wife, a pharmacist who has never had any computer education
nor doesn't like them. But she'll prefer to use Latex on Unix to write
letters or reports (using emacs as text editor) above Windows with
MS-Word (and she has access to both).
It is just a matter of what one is used to and educated in. I happened
to expose her to Unix and Tex before she saw other computer
environments.
The idea that non computer professionals or freaks are the only ones
that could like Unix is pure prejudice, and is something that
a.o. Microsoft wants everybody to believe. It is just not true, but
too many don't even try to teach using the Unix environment to
computer illiterates because they have been brainwashed.
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