Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Lawrence G. Mayka
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 00:52

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In article <395p66$2j4@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

   At the risk of repeating myself, I'll state that in this community, only 
   technical criteria matter.  Politics do not drive the technical, but vice
   versa.  To see it as otherwise is to fight a losing battle.  Until gnu
   script appears, it's vaporware of a purely political nature, and just so
   much hype and hormones.  Once it does, it has the potential of being a
   technical wonder and filling some gaping niche (which most of us can't
   see), at which point it will be judged on its technical merits.  

Oh, if only that were true, that people always behaved totally
rationally and without short-sighted self-interest.  I fear not,
though.
--
        Lawrence G. Mayka
        AT&T Bell Laboratories
        lgm@ieain.att.com

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From: lgm@polaris.ih.att.com (Lawrence G. Mayka)
Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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