It was on, or about, Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:14:44 -0700, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> writes:
<snip drivel>
> I do. My gf does. My mom does. Around 30-40 desktops in daily use for 8+
> hours a day at drjays.com (my employer until recently) do, and a few
> desktops at my current employer do also. There's more Linux desktop use
> out there than most people think. It reminds me of my recent discoveries
> about the Lisp programming language. I thought it was dead for years
> because nobody I knew was using it. But a couple of years ago I found a
> ton of people using it (many of the major airlines and orbitz.com all
> use a software product written in Lisp to handle ticket sales and
> scheduling) and now I realize it has been there all along. I am
> constantly amazed to find out how large and segmented the computer world
> can be. Even now there are 267 people in #lisp on freenode. And I
> thought it was dead except for very niche use in emacs. How wrong I was.
> There are 467 people in #linux on freenode alone. The Linux desktop
> market is already plenty big enough to keep me very busy.
YHBT.
--
"Anything said in COLA is a crock of shit."
Hadron Quark, Tuesday 03 Jul 2007
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
So this would include anything that *he* says!
|
|
