[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> H Vlems wrote:
> 
>>> Can you spell WEENDOZE?
> 
> 
>> No, because I'm a foreigner. But the answer is that there ought to be
>> more E's in the word, right?
> 
> 
> I would have thought that a "foreigner" on c.o.v. would have nothing to
> do with political boundaries but rather with OS boundaries. A Weendoze
> weenie would be a foreigner here. A Unix geek would be a foreigner here.
> But someone with loyalty to VMS would not be a foreigner here.
> 
> However, if a foreigner wishes to be a citizen of c.o.v. , I am sure we
> could have acceptable rituals that don't hurt too much to let him prove
> his loyalty to VMS.
> 
> ;-)

Don't you think that the level of pain should be adjusted depending on 
which O/S he is coming from?  MS-DOS would be the bottom of the heap and 
topped by Windoze and then various flavors of Linux and Unix!