eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) (12/03/90)
Hah. Well, now I'm truly damned if I do and damned if I don't. A netter who shall remain nameless wrote: > If you change the opinions about Multics in there, you'll destroy the ENTIRE >history of the jargon file. Hatred of Multics founded ITS long before UNIX. >If you try to make things fair, you'll ruin it. So who'm I supposed to gratify? The pro-MULTICS crowd typified by Rick Smith who believe MULTICS has been unjustly shafted by the derogatory references in jargon-2.1.5, or the anti-MULTICS people who characterize it as a bloated failure, and argue that detestation of it is integral to the tradition I'm trying to preserve? This decision is not made any easier by the fact that I agree with both parties, nor by my growing certainty that I will be torched by indignant zealots whichever gang I hand the baby to. <sigh> Well, Eric, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it... I am removing comp.unix.wizards from the followup line. This discussion should move to alt.folklore.computers; for those who don't get alt.*, I will cross-post to comp.misc. -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (12/04/90)
In article <1YfTW4#8MK9Xf8YJtZH970VXl0fFB3R=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >I am removing comp.unix.wizards from the followup line. This discussion ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1) Sigh... 2) I was _wondering_ what his initial excuse was for posting it to comp.unix.internals. Turns out there was an indirection he didn't account for. ('Noalias' raises its ugly head...) --Blair "3) Anyone got any threes?"