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Re: USB modem Linux driver



On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: USB modem Linux driver":
> comparing notepad and xemacs is not really it.
> compare notepad to knotes 107k 
> even if xemacs was a linux program (which is not)
> you might as well compare word to ed(74k:)

Continuing my series of quotes from American TV,
"Whatchou Talking About Wills?"

1. There is no such thing as a "Linux program" unless we're talking about
   some closed-source commercial thing. I can install KDE (and indeed, have
   done so!) on other types of Unix machines - will you then stop calling
   knotes a Linux program?
   I think that XEmacs, as a package that comes on the Redhat 7 CDROM, can
   be rightly called a "Linux program".

2. Of course comparing notepad to XEmacs is silly! That was my whole point -
   it's also silly to compare a bare-bones driver without any UI to some
   Windows driver with a lot of fancy UI around it (if it is indeed the case,
   I didn't check that actual USB modem thing). The additional size is
   not always waste, sometimes it's because of the added features (you
   can argue, however, how much these features are really needed).

3. Word and ed do completely different things: ed is a text editor, word
   is a word processor. So comparing notepad and xemacs is a better
   comparison: at least both of them were _supposed_ to do the same thing
   (though along the way Emacs turned into something that, incidentally,
   also reads your mail and plays tetris).

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